Test 3 · ★ · The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees

«gorilla does the chest thing with fists, like in the cartoon» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gorilla, cartoon · What happens: do, be · To what, where: chest thing

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 84 «The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees» 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 does	punct
2	gorilla	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	compound
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 fists	case
8	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thing	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cartoon	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 cartoon	case
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 cartoon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cartoon	det
13	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 cartoon	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cartoon	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present	gorilla	the chest thing				with fists; like the cartoon	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	is	present	the cartoon					right property	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

Yes, always with closed fists, just like a boxer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 fists	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 fists	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 fists	case
5	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fists	amod
6	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 boxer	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 boxer	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 boxer	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boxer	det
11	boxer	boxer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fists	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It hits a tree, not its chest

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	2 hits	nsubj
2	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hits	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chest	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 chest	advmod
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 chest	nmod:poss
8	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hits	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	It	a tree				tree's chest obl	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Co-Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It uses cupped hands, which make a loud pop

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	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cupped	cup	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hands	amod
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 uses	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pop	det
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pop	amod
10	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	use	present	It		tree rules
2	cup	participle			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	make	present	cupped hands	a loud pop	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pop=Product

Option 4

It uses its feet

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	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feet	nmod:poss
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	It	its feet					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient

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