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title: A cartoon monkey eats only bananas all day. Which is closer to the t… — The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon monkey eats only bananas all day. Which is closer to the truth for a gorilla? Test 8 · ★ 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 righ
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# Test 8 · ★ · The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees

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A cartoon monkey eats only bananas all day. Which is closer to the truth for a gorilla?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cartoon monkey · **What happens:** eat, be · **To what, where:** bananas

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon monkey eats only bananas all day.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees:t8:1
# text = A cartoon monkey eats only bananas all day.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | a cartoon monkey | bananas |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which is closer to the truth for a gorilla?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees:t8:2
# text = Which is closer to the truth for a gorilla?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gorilla	gorilla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to the truth; for a gorilla; close *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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It eats mostly leaves, stems and shoots, with some fruit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees:t8:o1:1
# text = It eats mostly leaves, stems and shoots, with some fruit
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	shoots	shoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | It | leaves and stems and shoots and some fruit |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It eats insects and nothing else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees:t8:o2:1
# text = It eats insects and nothing else
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	conj	_	_
6	else	else	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | It | insects |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It eats mostly meat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees:t8:o3:1
# text = It eats mostly meat
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | It | meat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It eats only bananas, like in cartoons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees:t8:o4:1
# text = It eats only bananas, like in cartoons
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | It | bananas |  |  |  | like cartoons | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=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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