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Test 8 · ★ · The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees

A cartoon monkey eats only bananas all day. Which is closer to the truth for a gorilla?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon monkey · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: bananas

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A cartoon monkey eats only bananas all day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 monkey	compound
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eats	nsubj
4	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 bananas	advmod
6	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eats	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eats	obl:unmarked
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	a cartoon monkey	bananas			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: Which is closer to the truth for a gorilla?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 closer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 closer	cop
3	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 truth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closer	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 gorilla	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 gorilla	det
9	gorilla	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closer	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 closer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						to the truth; for a gorilla; close property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It eats mostly leaves, stems and shoots, with some fruit

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 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 leaves	advmod
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stems	punct
6	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leaves	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shoots	cc
8	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leaves	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fruit	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 fruit	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 fruit	det
12	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	It	leaves and stems and shoots and some fruit					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 2

It eats insects and nothing else

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 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nothing	cc
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 insects	conj
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 nothing	advmod

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

Option 3

It eats mostly meat

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 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 meat	advmod
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obj

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

Option 4

It eats only bananas, like in cartoons

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 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 bananas	advmod
4	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cartoons	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 cartoons	case
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 cartoons	case
8	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	It	bananas				like cartoons	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Patient

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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