Test 8 · ★ · Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and A…

«Koko knew sign language so she talked like us, done» What is the careful view?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Koko, careful view · What happens: know, talk, do, be · To what, where: sign language · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	3 knew	punct
2	Koko	Koko	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 language	compound
5	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 talked	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 talked	nsubj
8	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 us	case
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 talked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 talked	parataxis
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 talked	parataxis
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 What	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 view	det
17	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 view	amod
18	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 What	nsubj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	past	Koko	sign language		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
2	talk in a quote	past	Koko		like us	tree rules
3	do in a quote	participle				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	the careful view			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

She knew nothing at all and only copied her keeper's hands for food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knew	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 knew	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 copied	cc
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 copied	advmod
8	copied	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 keeper	nmod:poss
10	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hands	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 keeper	case
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 copied	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 food	case
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 copied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	She	nothing		all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	copy	past	She not said here	her keeper's hands				for food	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

Option 2

She spoke English out loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obj
4	out	out	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod
5	loud	loud	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak out speech: other	past	She	English				loud, out property	tree rules

Option 3

She wrote books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wrote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	She	books					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She used many signs, but how much she understood is still argued

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 signs	amod
4	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 understood	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 understood	cc
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	10 understood	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 understood	nsubj
10	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	conj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 argued	aux:pass
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 argued	advmod
13	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 used	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	use	past	She	many signs		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient
2	understand	past	she			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	argue speech: disagree	present · passive			still	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»

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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