Test 2 · ★★★ · How close are apes to us?
A friend says humans and chimps have 99 percent the same DNA, so a chimp is 99 percent human. What is wrong with that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, humans, chimp · What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: 99 percent · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 17 «How close are apes to us?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: A friend says humans and chimps have 99 percent the same DNA, so a chimp is 99 percent human.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 friend | det |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 chimps | cc |
| 6 | chimps | chimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 humans | conj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 8 | 99 | 99 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 percent | nummod |
| 9 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 DNA | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 DNA | amod |
| 12 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 human | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 human | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 chimp | det |
| 16 | chimp | chimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 human | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 human | cop |
| 18 | 99 | 99 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 percent | nummod |
| 19 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 human | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | humans and chimps | 99 percent | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a chimp | 99 percent obl:unmarked; human property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What is wrong with that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 wrong | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with that; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Chimps share only 1 percent of our DNA
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chimps | chimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 share | nsubj |
| 2 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 1 | advmod |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 percent | nummod |
| 5 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 share | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 DNA | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 DNA | nmod:poss |
| 8 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 percent | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | Chimps | 1 percent of our DNA | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Small DNA differences can make big differences in bodies and brains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 differences | amod |
| 2 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 differences | compound |
| 3 | differences | difference | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 differences | amod |
| 7 | differences | difference | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bodies | case |
| 9 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brains | cc |
| 11 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bodies | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | Small DNA differences | big differences | bodies and brains | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product |
Option 3
DNA has nothing to do with bodies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 has | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nothing | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 bodies | case |
| 7 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | DNA | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | DNA not said here | nothing not said here | with bodies | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Nothing, a chimp really is 99 percent a person, just in a hairy body
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 person | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chimp | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chimp | det |
| 4 | chimp | chimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 99 | advmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 99 | cop |
| 7 | 99 | 99 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 percent | nummod |
| 8 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 person | compound |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 body | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 body | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 body | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 body | det |
| 15 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 body | amod |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 person | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 99 | tree rules |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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