Test 1 · ★ · Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and A…

«chimps just find sticks, that ain't making tools» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: chimps · What happens: find, not make, be · To what, where: sticks, tools · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 387 «Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory» 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	_	4 find	punct
2	chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 find	advmod
4	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ai	punct
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ai	nsubj
8	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Vrnc Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sticks	acl:relcl
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 making	advmod
10	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ai	advcl
11	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 making	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 making	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 making	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	present	chimps	sticks		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Topic
2	not make in a quote	gerund	chimps not said here	tools		tree rules
3	is	present			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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They strip the leaves first, so they shape a tool

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 strip	nsubj
2	strip	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leaves	det
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strip	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 strip	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shape	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 shape	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shape	nsubj
9	shape	shape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 strip	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tool	det
11	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shape	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strip	present	They	the leaves				first property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	shape	present	leaves = leaf	a tool					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tool=Product

Option 2

Only people make tools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 people	advmod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	people	tools					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Product

Option 3

Chimps cannot hold sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hold	advmod
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hold	can	Chimps	sticks					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme

Option 4

Yes, they never change the stick in any way at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 change	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 change	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 change	advmod
5	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stick	det
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 way	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present	they	the stick		any way at all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient

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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