Test 9 · ★★★ · Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and miss…

«Neanderthals were thick cavemen with clubs» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Neanderthals, thick cavemen · What happens: be · To what, where: thick cavemen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	_	2 Neanderthals	punct
2	Neanderthals	neanderthal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cavemen	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cavemen	cop
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cavemen	amod
5	cavemen	caveman	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 clubs	case
7	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 right	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 clubs	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cavemen	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cavemen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Neanderthals	thick cavemen					tree rules
2	is	present	thick cavemen					with clubs; right 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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, they could not make anything at all and lived by hitting animals with sticks

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 make	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 anything	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lived	cc
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	conj
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 hitting	mark
13	hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 lived	advcl
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hitting	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 sticks	case
16	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not make	could	they	anything	all		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset anything=Product
2	live	past	they not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hit	gerund	they not said here	animals		with sticks	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent animal=Patient with stick=Instrument

Option 2

No, they were robots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 robots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 robots	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 robots	cop
5	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	robots					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They made tools, used fire, buried their dead and had brains as big as ours

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fire	punct
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fire	amod
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tools	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 buried	punct
8	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dead	nmod:poss
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 buried	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
13	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 big	advmod
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 had	xcomp
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 ours	case
17	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 big	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	They	tools and used fire		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tool=Product
2	use	participle				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bury	past	They not said here	tools's dead		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme
4	have	past	They not said here	brains	big property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient

Option 4

Yes, they were a kind of gorilla

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 gorilla	case
8	gorilla	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	a kind				of gorilla	tree rules

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