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# Test 8 · ★★★ · The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes t…

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«can't the orangutan just swim off the island and escape» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** swim, escape, be · **To what, where:** orangutan, island

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This is test 8 · ★★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t8:1
# text = «can't the orangutan just swim off the island and escape» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	orangutan	orangutan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** *in a quote* | present |  | the orangutan |  | the island |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off island=Trajectory |
| 2 | **escape** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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No, because the water is too hot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t8:o1:1
# text = No, because the water is too hot
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the water |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, orangutans are strong swimmers and cross rivers every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t8:o2:1
# text = Yes, orangutans are strong swimmers and cross rivers every day
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	cross	cross	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | orangutans | strong swimmers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cross** | present |  | rivers |  |  | day |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Great apes do not swim naturally, so the moat keeps them in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t8:o3:1
# text = Great apes do not swim naturally, so the moat keeps them in
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	moat	moat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **swim** | present · do-support | Great apes |  |  |  |  | naturally *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep in** | present | the moat | apes *= ape* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, but only at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t8:o4:1
# text = Yes, but only at night
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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