Test 9 · ★ · Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and A…

«why don't my big toes grab stuff like a chimp's» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: big toes, best answer · What happens: not grab, be · To what, where: stuff · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	8 grab	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 grab	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 grab	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 grab	advmod
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 toes	nmod:poss
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 toes	amod
7	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grab	nsubj
8	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grab	obj
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 chimp	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 chimp	det
12	chimp	chimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grab	obl
13	's	's	PART	_	12 chimp	case
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 grab	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 grab	parataxis
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 What	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 answer	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 answer	amod
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 What	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 grab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grab in a quote	present · do-support	my big toes	stuff				like a chimp	tree rules
2	is a	present	the best answer						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

Chimps have no big toes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 toes	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 toes	amod
5	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Chimps	no big toes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient

Option 2

Shoes squashed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 squashed	nsubj:pass
2	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 squashed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	participle · passive		Shoes					vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme they=Destination

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

Our feet are made for walking, theirs for climbing and gripping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feet	nmod:poss
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 walking	case
6	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 theirs	punct
8	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 made	obl
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 climbing	mark
10	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 made	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gripping	cc
12	gripping	grip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 climbing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive	Our feet	for walking; theirs = they obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for walking=Asset
2	climb	gerund			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grip	gerund			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

We forgot how to use them because we stopped climbing trees as babies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 use	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 use	mark
5	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forgot	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 use	obj
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 stopped	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 stopped	nsubj
9	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forgot	advcl
10	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stopped	xcomp
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 climbing	obj
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 babies	case
13	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 climbing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forget	past	We			tree rules
2	not use	to-infinitive	We not said here	them = they		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	stop	past	we			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	climb	gerund	we not said here	trees	as babies	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme

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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