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Test 2 · ★ · Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and A…

Count them: Curious George is called a monkey but has no tail. A real chimp has how many tails?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, real chimp · What happens: count, call, have · To what, where: them, Curious George, tail, many tails · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Count them: Curious George is called a monkey but has no tail.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Count	obj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
4	Curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 George	amod
5	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 called	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 called	aux:pass
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Count	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 monkey	det
9	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 has	cc
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 called	conj
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 tail	det
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	call	present · passive		Curious George					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	have	present		no tail					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: A real chimp has how many tails?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chimp	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chimp	amod
3	chimp	chimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tails	amod
7	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a real chimp	many tails					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

The options

Option 1

One, like all monkeys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 monkeys	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 monkeys	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 monkeys	det
5	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

None, apes have no tails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	3 apes	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 None	punct
3	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 tails	det
6	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	None apes	no tails					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 4

One, but very short and curly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 short	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 short	cc
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 short	advmod
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 One	parataxis
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 curly	cc
7	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 short	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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