Test 9 · ★★★ · How close are apes to us?

What would happen if a young chimp grew up with no older chimps to copy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young chimp · What happens: happen, grow up, copy

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 grew	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chimp	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chimp	amod
7	chimp	chimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 grew	compound:prt
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 chimps	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 chimps	det
12	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 chimps	amod
13	chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grew	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 copy	mark
15	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 grew	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow up a condition, not said to happen	past	a young chimp	with no older chimps	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	copy	to-infinitive	a young chimp not said here		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

It would know everything by instinct, so it would crack nuts anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 know	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 instinct	case
6	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 crack	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 crack	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 crack	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 crack	aux
11	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	conj
12	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 crack	obj
13	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	11 crack	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	It	everything				by instinct	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
2	crack	would	instinct	nuts				anyway property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme

Option 2

It would learn to talk instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 talk	mark
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	xcomp
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	It						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	talk	to-infinitive						instead property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It might never learn its group's traditions, like nut cracking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 learn	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 learn	advmod
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 group	nmod:poss
6	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 traditions	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 group	case
8	traditions	tradition	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cracking	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 cracking	case
11	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cracking	compound
12	cracking	cracking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	might	It	its group's traditions				like nut cracking	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tradition=Topic

Option 4

It would invent writing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 invent	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 invent	aux
3	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	would	It	writing					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Result

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