Test 8 · ★★ · Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa

«the foosa's a made-up monster from the film lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: foosa, film · What happens: make up, be · To what, where: made monster, film

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	_	9 monster	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 foosa	det
3	foosa	foosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 monster	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 monster	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 monster	det
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 monster	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 made	compound:prt
9	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 film	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 film	det
12	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 monster	nmod
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	17 right	discourse
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 lol	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 film	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 monster	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make up in a quote	participle					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	the foosa	a made monster	the film		tree rules
3	is	present	the film			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

Right, it is a made-up monster, like dragons in other films

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	9 monster	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 monster	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 monster	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 monster	det
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 monster	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 made	compound:prt
9	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dragons	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 dragons	case
12	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 monster	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 films	case
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 films	amod
15	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dragons	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	participle							vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	it	a made monster and dragons in other films					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The fossa is a real predator that climbs trees and hunts lemurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fossa	det
2	fossa	fossa	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 predator	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 predator	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 predator	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 predator	amod
6	predator	predator	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 climbs	nsubj
8	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 predator	acl:relcl
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 climbs	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hunts	cc
11	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 climbs	conj
12	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hunts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the fossa	a real predator	tree rules
2	climb	present	a real predator	trees	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	hunt	present	a real predator not said here	lemurs	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemur=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It is a real kind of bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kind	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kind	amod
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 bear	case
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a real kind				of bear	tree rules

Option 4

It is a real kind of dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kind	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kind	amod
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 dog	case
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a real kind				of dog	tree rules

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