Test 7 · ★★★ · How close are apes to us?

shut up, chimps are just dumb animals, they can't do anything we can't

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, chimps · What happens: shut up, be, not do · To what, where: dumb animals, anything

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 shut	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 animals	punct
4	chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 animals	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 animals	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 animals	advmod
7	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animals	amod
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 shut	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
11	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 do	advmod
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 shut	conj
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 do	obj
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 ca	nsubj
16	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 anything	acl:relcl
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	shut up	imperative	you not said here		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	chimps	dumb animals	tree rules
3	not do	can	chimps = chimp	anything	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

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.

The options

Option 1

True, but only in zoos, where they are bored and lazy all day long

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 zoos	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 zoos	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 zoos	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 zoos	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 zoos	case
6	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bored	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 bored	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bored	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bored	cop
11	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 zoos	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lazy	cc
13	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bored	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bored	obl:unmarked
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 day	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	zoos = zoo				day	bored property	tree rules
2	be		zoos = zoo not said here						tree rules

Option 2

True, apes are worse at everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 apes	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worse	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worse	cop
5	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 everything	case
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 worse	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	True apes			everything		bad property	tree rules

Option 3

Wrong: chimps can read and write books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct
3	chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wrong	parataxis
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 write	cc
7	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 read	conj
8	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	can	chimps						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	write	infinitive	chimps not said here	books					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wrong: Ayumu beat grown-ups at a number memory game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Ayumu	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	Ayumu	Ayumu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 beat	nsubj
4	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ups	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 ups	punct
7	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beat	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	12 game	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 game	det
10	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 memory	compound
11	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 game	compound
12	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	Wrong Ayumu	grown ups		a memory game			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location up=Theme
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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