Test 1 · ★★★ · Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and miss…

«we came from monkeys, so why are there still monkeys, checkmate» What is the right answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: we · What happens: come, be · To what, where: right answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 280 «Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	csubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 monkeys	case
5	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 there	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 there	advmod
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 there	advmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 there	cop
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	conj
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 monkeys	advmod
12	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 there	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 checkmate	punct
14	checkmate	checkmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 monkeys	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 answer	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	we		from monkeys	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from monkey=Initial_Location
2	is in a quote	present	we not said here		there property	tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present		the right answer		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.

The options

Option 1

The monkeys are waiting their turn to turn into people, one by one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkeys	det
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 waiting	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 waiting	aux
4	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 turn	nmod:poss
6	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waiting	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 turn	mark
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 waiting	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 people	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turn	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 waiting	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 one	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present · progressive	the monkeys	monkeys's turn				one by one obl	tree rules
2	turn	to-infinitive	the monkeys not said here					into people result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into people=Result

Option 2

Monkeys came from people instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 people	case
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	2 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Monkeys					from people; instead property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from people=Initial_Location

Option 3

There will be no monkeys soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 monkeys	det
5	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 be	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	future	no monkeys			there		soon property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

We did not come from today's monkeys; we share ancestors, like cousins

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 monkeys	case
6	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 monkeys	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 today	case
8	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 share	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 share	nsubj
11	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	conj
12	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 share	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cousins	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 cousins	case
15	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 share	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	past · do-support	We					from today's monkeys	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from monkey=Initial_Location
2	share	present	we	ancestors				like cousins	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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