Test 5 · ★ · Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and A…

What would happen if a young chimp grew up with no adults to watch?

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

This is test 5 · ★ 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	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	_	12 adults	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 adults	det
12	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grew	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 watch	mark
14	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 adults	acl
15	?	?	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 adults	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	watch	to-infinitive	a young chimp not said here		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

It would find it much harder to learn termite fishing and 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	3 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	obj
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 harder	advmod
6	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 find	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 learn	mark
8	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 harder	xcomp
9	termite	termite	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fishing	compound
10	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 learn	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cracking	cc
12	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cracking	compound
13	cracking	cracking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fishing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	It	it				hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	learn	to-infinitive		termite fishing and nut cracking					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fishing=Topic

Option 2

It would teach the adults

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 teach	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 teach	aux
3	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 adults	det
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 teach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	would	It		the adults				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would learn every trick faster on its own, because nobody would get in its way

The tree, 16 words

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	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 trick	det
5	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 learn	obj
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 learn	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 own	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 own	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 learn	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 get	mark
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 get	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 way	nmod:poss
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	It	every trick		trick's own		fast property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic
2	get	would	nobody			trick's way			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

It would know every trick 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	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 trick	det
5	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	obj
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	3 know	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	It	every trick				anyway property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus

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