Test 6 · ★★★ · The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes t…

What would happen if you put a mark on a dog's face and showed it a mirror?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, put, show · To what, where: mark, face

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 put	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mark	det
8	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 face	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 face	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 dog	case
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 showed	cc
15	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 showed	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mirror	det
18	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 showed	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a mark	a dog's face	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme on face=Destination
3	show	past	you not said here	mark		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient mirror=Topic

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

It would draw a mark on the mirror

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	3 draw	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 draw	aux
3	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mark	det
5	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draw	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 mirror	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mirror	det
8	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	would	It	a mark		the mirror			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mark=Theme on mirror=Destination

Option 2

It always picks the mark off at once with its paw, like an ape would

The tree, 15 words

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	3 picks	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 picks	advmod
3	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mark	det
5	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picks	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	3 picks	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 picks	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 paw	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 paw	nmod:poss
11	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picks	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 would	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 ape	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 ape	det
15	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 would	obl
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 picks	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick off	present	It	the mark				with mark's paw; always property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent mark=Theme at once=Asset

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

It usually ignores the mark, as dogs rarely pass this test

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	3 ignores	nsubj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 ignores	advmod
3	ignores	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mark	det
5	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ignores	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pass	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 pass	mark
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pass	nsubj
9	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	10 pass	advmod
10	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ignores	conj
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 test	det
12	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pass	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	present	It	the mark				usually property	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme
2	pass	present	dogs	this test				rarely property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme test=Trajectory

Option 4

It would learn to speak

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	3 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 speak	mark
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	It						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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