Test 8 · ★★★ · The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes t…

«can't the orangutan just swim off the island and escape» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: swim, escape, be · To what, where: orangutan, island

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 orangutan	punct
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 orangutan	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 orangutan	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 orangutan	det
5	orangutan	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swim	obl
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 swim	advmod
7	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 island	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 island	det
10	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swim	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 escape	cc
12	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 swim	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 escape	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 escape	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 swim	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim in a quote	present	the orangutan	the island		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off island=Trajectory
2	escape in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present			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

No, because the water is too hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 hot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hot	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 hot	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hot	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hot	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 hot	advmod
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the water					hot property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, orangutans are strong swimmers and cross rivers every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 cross	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 swimmers	punct
3	orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swimmers	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 swimmers	cop
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swimmers	amod
6	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Yes	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cross	cc
8	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cross	obj
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cross	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	orangutans	strong swimmers					tree rules
2	cross	present		rivers			day		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Great apes do not swim naturally, so the moat keeps them in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 apes	amod
2	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swim	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 swim	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 swim	advmod
5	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	5 swim	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 keeps	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 keeps	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moat	det
10	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keeps	nsubj
11	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 swim	parataxis
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 keeps	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	11 keeps	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swim	present · do-support	Great apes					naturally property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep in	present	the moat	apes = ape					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Yes, but only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 night	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 night	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 night	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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