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title: Which of these would a chimp use as a tool? — The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of these would a chimp use as a tool? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 84 «The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees» 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 wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★ · The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees

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Which of these would a chimp use as a tool?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 84 «The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees» 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/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees:t10:1
# text = Which of these would a chimp use as a tool?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	chimp	chimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tool	tool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A fork to eat its food with

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees:t10:o1:1
# text = A fork to eat its food with
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | fork's food |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A spade to dig a garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees:t10:o2:1
# text = A spade to dig a garden
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spade	spade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | to-infinitive |  | a garden |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent garden=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A stone to crack nuts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees:t10:o3:1
# text = A stone to crack nuts
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | to-infinitive |  | nuts |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A rope to tie up a boat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees:t10:o4:1
# text = A rope to tie up a boat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie up** | to-infinitive |  | a boat |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient |

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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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