Test 11 · ★ · Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa
«who sings in the forest at dawn, sounds like a siren» in Madagascar. Which animal fits best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal · What happens: sing, sound, fit · To what, where: forest, Madagascar
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 163 «Madagascar: lemurs of every kind 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: «who sings in the forest at dawn, sounds like a siren» in Madagascar.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 sings | punct |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 sings | nsubj |
| 3 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 forest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sings | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 dawn | case |
| 8 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sings | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sounds | punct |
| 10 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sings | conj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 siren | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 siren | det |
| 13 | siren | siren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sounds | obl |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 siren | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Madagascar | case |
| 16 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sounds | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sings | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | present | the forest | dawn | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | ||||
| 2 | sound in a quote | present | Madagascar | like a siren | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in madagascar=Location |
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: Which animal fits best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fits | nsubj |
| 3 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 fits | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | which animal | well property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A fossa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fossa | det |
| 2 | fossa | fossa | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A chameleon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chameleon | det |
| 2 | chameleon | chameleon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A mouse lemur
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lemur | det |
| 2 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lemur | compound |
| 3 | lemur | lemur | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
An indri family
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 family | det |
| 2 | indri | indri | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 family | compound |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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