Test 6 · ★ · Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and A…

«my mate says the chimp beat students at memory, so chimps are cleverer than people» What is the fair view?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, chimp, chimps, fair view · What happens: say, beat, be · To what, where: students, memory · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chimp	det
6	chimp	chimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beat	nsubj
7	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 beat	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 memory	case
10	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beat	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cleverer	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 cleverer	advmod
13	chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cleverer	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 cleverer	cop
15	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 says	parataxis
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 people	case
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 What	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 people	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 cleverer	conj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 What	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 view	det
22	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 view	amod
23	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 What	nsubj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	beat in a quote	past	the chimp	students	memory		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	chimps			clever property	tree rules
4	is a	present	the fair view			than people	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

Ayumu did better in one quick-memory test; that is argued and is not all of cleverness

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ayumu	Ayumu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 did	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	9 test	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 test	nummod
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 test	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 quick	punct
8	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 test	compound
9	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 argued	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 argued	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 argued	aux:pass
13	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 all	cc
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 all	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 all	advmod
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 argued	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 cleverness	case
19	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ayumu			one quick memory test		well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	argue speech: disagree	present · passive		that					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic

Option 2

The students were asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 students	det
2	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asleep	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	cop
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the students					asleep property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, chimps are cleverer than people at everything, from maths to building houses and cars

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 chimps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cleverer	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cleverer	cop
5	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cleverer	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 everything	case
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 cleverer	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 maths	punct
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 maths	case
12	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cleverer	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 houses	case
14	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 houses	compound
15	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 maths	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cars	cc
17	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 houses	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	chimps			everything		than people; from maths to building houses and cars; clever property	tree rules

Option 4

No, Ayumu failed the test

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 failed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Ayumu	Ayumu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 failed	nsubj
4	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 test	det
6	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 failed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past	Ayumu	the test					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Eventuality

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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