Test 12 · ★★★ · The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes t…

Why would a male orangutan want huge cheek pads?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: male orangutan · What happens: want · To what, where: huge cheek pads

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 85 «The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 orangutan	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 orangutan	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 orangutan	det
4	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 orangutan	amod
5	orangutan	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pads	amod
8	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pads	compound
9	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 want	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a male orangutan	huge cheek pads					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pad=Theme

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

They store food for the long, hungry winter months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 store	nsubj
2	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 store	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	10 months	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 months	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 months	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 long	punct
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 months	amod
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 months	compound
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 store	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present	They	food			month		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 2

They help him float in rivers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 help	nsubj
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 help	obj
4	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 help	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 rivers	case
6	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	They	him = he					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	float	infinitive	him = he not said here			rivers			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Trajectory

Option 3

They keep rain out of his ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 ears	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 ears	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ears	nmod:poss
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	They	rain		his ears			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rain=Theme out ear=Location

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

They show others he is a strong, grown-up male

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 male	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 male	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 male	det
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 male	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 strong	punct
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 male	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 up	punct
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 grown	compound:prt
12	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	show	present	They	others	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient
2	grow up	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	he	a strong grown male	tree rules

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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