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description: «monkeys in the park nicked my sandwich, cheeky sods» What is true about macaques? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 137 «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 9 · ★ · Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys

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«monkeys in the park nicked my sandwich, cheeky sods» What is true about macaques?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** monkeys · **What happens:** nick, be · **To what, where:** sandwich · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 137 «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys:t9:1
# text = «monkeys in the park nicked my sandwich, cheeky sods» What is true about macaques?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	nicked	nick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sods	sod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	macaques	macaque	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nick** *in a quote* | past | monkeys in the park | my sandwich |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about macaques; true *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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They are clever and learn from each other where easy food is

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys:t9:o1:1
# text = They are clever and learn from each other where easy food is
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	5	obl	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
10	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | present | They *not said here* | easy food |  | each |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Topic from each=Source |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They are trained by the keepers to steal food from the visitors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys:t9:o2:1
# text = They are trained by the keepers to steal food from the visitors
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | present · passive | the keepers | They |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **steal** | to-infinitive | the keepers *not said here* | food |  |  |  | from the visitors | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from visitor=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They only steal shiny things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys:t9:o3:1
# text = They only steal shiny things
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	steal	steal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | present | They | shiny things |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They never touch human food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys:t9:o4:1
# text = They never touch human food
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** | present | They | human food |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Co-Theme |

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**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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