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title: «bonobos are just chimps innit» What is right? — The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bo… · tree and pragmatics
description: «bonobos are just chimps innit» What is right? Test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 85 «The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think» 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes t…

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«bonobos are just chimps innit» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bonobos, chimps innit · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** chimps innit

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This is test 3 · ★★★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t3:1
# text = «bonobos are just chimps innit» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	bonobos	bonobo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	chimps	chimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | bonobos | chimps innit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | chimps innit |  |  |  |  | right *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 a separate kind, slimmer, led by females, south of the Congo

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t3:o1:1
# text = They are a separate kind, slimmer, led by females, south of the Congo
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	slimmer	slimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	south	south	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | a separate kind and slimmer |  |  |  | south *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | participle |  | a separate kind and slimmer *not said here* |  |  |  | by females | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by female=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, bonobos are a kind of monkey with a tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t3:o2:1
# text = No, bonobos are a kind of monkey with a tail
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bonobos	bonobo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | bonobos | a kind |  |  |  | of monkey; with a tail | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, chimps turn into bonobos when old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t3:o3:1
# text = Yes, chimps turn into bonobos when old
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	chimps	chimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bonobos	bonobo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | chimps |  |  | bonobos |  | old *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into bonobo=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, bonobo is just the baby name for a chimp before it grows up big and strong

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t3:o4:1
# text = Yes, bonobo is just the baby name for a chimp before it grows up big and strong
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bonobo	bonobo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	chimp	chimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | bonobo | the baby name |  |  |  | for a chimp | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow up** | present | the baby name |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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