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Test 10 · ★★ · Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa

A tiny mouse lemur is busy at night but sleeps through the dry season. Where does its energy come from?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: tiny mouse lemur, energy · What happens: be, sleep, come

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 127 «Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: A tiny mouse lemur is busy at night but sleeps through the dry season.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lemur	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lemur	amod
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lemur	compound
4	lemur	lemur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 busy	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 busy	cop
6	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 busy	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 sleeps	cc
10	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 busy	conj
11	through	through	ADP	_	14 season	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 season	det
13	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 season	amod
14	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sleeps	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 busy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a tiny mouse lemur				night	busy property	tree rules
2	sleep	present	a tiny mouse lemur not said here				season		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: Where does its energy come from?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 come	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 energy	nmod:poss
4	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	5 come	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · do-support	lemur's energy						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Water it drinks in its sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drinks	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drinks	nsubj
3	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sleep	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sleep	nmod:poss
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drinks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	Water			Water's sleep			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep		Water						nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fat stored in its tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Fat	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 tail	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tail	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	participle		Fat not said here		Fat's tail			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tail=Location

Option 3

Sunlight soaking into its fur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	soaking	soak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Sunlight	acl
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 fur	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fur	nmod:poss
5	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak	gerund	Sunlight not said here			Sunlight's fur			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Food brought by other lemurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Food	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 lemurs	case
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lemurs	amod
5	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	participle		Food not said here				by other lemurs	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent

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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