Test 4 · ★★★ · The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes t…

How could a river make two kinds of ape grow apart?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: river, two kinds · What happens: make, grow apart

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 make	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 grow	advcl
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 kinds	nummod
7	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grow	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 ape	case
9	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kinds	nmod
10	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	apart	apart	ADV	_	10 grow	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	could	a river						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	grow apart	present	two kinds of ape					apart property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

Rivers have no effect on animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rivers	river	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	4 effect	det
4	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 animals	case
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 effect	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Rivers	no effect				on animals	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient

Option 2

Apes on one side drink more water and grow bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drink	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 side	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 side	nummod
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Apes	nmod
5	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grow	cc
9	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 drink	conj
10	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	Apes on one side	more water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	grow	infinitive	Apes on one side not said here					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The river water slowly changes the colour of the apes on one side of it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	compound
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changes	nsubj
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 changes	advmod
5	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 colour	det
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changes	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 apes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 apes	det
10	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 colour	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 side	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 side	nummod
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 apes	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 side	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	the river water	the colour of the apes on one side of side				slowly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

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

Apes cannot swim, so groups on each side live apart for ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swim	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 swim	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 swim	advmod
4	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 live	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 live	advmod
7	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 live	nsubj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 side	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 side	det
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 groups	nmod
11	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 swim	conj
12	apart	apart	ADV	_	11 live	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 ages	case
14	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swim	can	Apes						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	present	groups on each side				for ages	apart property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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