Test 4 · ★★ · Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa

«lemurs = monkeys from Africa innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lemurs · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 lemurs	punct
2	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 right	nsubj
3	=	=	SYM	_	4 monkeys	punct
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lemurs	conj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 innit	case
6	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 innit	compound
7	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 monkeys	nmod
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 lemurs	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	lemurs and monkeys from Africa innit					right property	tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Lemurs are primates but not monkeys, and live wild only on Madagascar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 primates	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 primates	cop
3	primates	primate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 monkeys	cc
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 monkeys	advmod
6	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 primates	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 live	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 live	cc
9	live	live	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 primates	parataxis
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 live	xcomp
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 Madagascar	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 Madagascar	case
13	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lemurs	primates but monkeys					tree rules
2	live	infinitive				Madagascar		wild property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on madagascar=Location

Option 2

Right, they are African monkeys that also live in India

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 monkeys	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 monkeys	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 monkeys	cop
5	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 monkeys	amod
6	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 live	obj
8	also	also	ADV	_	9 live	advmod
9	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 monkeys	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 India	case
11	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	African monkeys					tree rules
2	live	present		African monkeys		India			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme that=Location

Option 3

Wrong, they are cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cats	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cats	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cats	cop
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	Wrong cats					tree rules

Option 4

Right, they came from the zoo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 zoo	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 zoo	det
7	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	they			the zoo			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from zoo=Initial_Location

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