Test 8 · The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar

Why would an African monkey never hang by its tail like a spider monkey?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: African monkey · What happens: not hang

This is test 8 of lesson 86 «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» 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	7 hang	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hang	aux
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 monkey	det
4	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 monkey	amod
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hang	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 hang	advmod
7	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 tail	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tail	nmod:poss
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hang	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 monkey	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 monkey	det
13	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 monkey	compound
14	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hang	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hang	would	a African monkey					by monkey's tail; like a spider monkey	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tail=Location

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

African monkeys only live on the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 monkeys	amod
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 live	advmod
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	African monkeys			the ground			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location

Option 2

African monkeys are too heavy for trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 monkeys	amod
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heavy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 trees	case
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heavy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	African monkeys					for trees; heavy property	tree rules

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

No African or Asian monkey has a gripping tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 monkey	det
2	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 monkey	amod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 Asian	cc
4	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 African	conj
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tail	det
8	gripping	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 tail	amod
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	no African monkey	a gripping tail					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	grip	gerund							vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

African monkeys have no tails at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 monkeys	amod
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 tails	det
5	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	African monkeys	no tails		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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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