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title: A friend says only apes and people use tools. What would you say? — The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: A friend says only apes and people use tools. What would you say? Test 10 of lesson 86 «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» 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 monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar

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A friend says only apes and people use tools. What would you say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friend, apes, you · **What happens:** say, use · **To what, where:** tools · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 86 «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» 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/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A friend says only apes and people use tools.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t10:1
# text = A friend says only apes and people use tools.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **use** | present | apes and people | tools |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=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:* What would you say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t10:2
# text = What would you say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Monkeys use tools but only in cartoons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t10:o1:1
# text = Monkeys use tools but only in cartoons
1	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Monkeys | tools but cartoons |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Right, no monkey has ever used a tool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t10:o2:1
# text = Right, no monkey has ever used a tool
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tool	tool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · perfect · passive |  | no monkey |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only birds and people use tools

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t10:o3:1
# text = Only birds and people use tools
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | birds and people | tools |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Capuchins crack nuts with stones, so monkeys use tools too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t10:o4:1
# text = Capuchins crack nuts with stones, so monkeys use tools too
1	Capuchins	capuchin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crack	crack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | present | Capuchins | nuts |  |  |  | with stones | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nut=Patient with stone=Instrument |
| 2 | **use** | present | monkeys | tools |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=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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