Test 8 · ★ · Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa

«why do lemurs scream when a fossa comes, they're just loud lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lemurs, fossa · What happens: scream, come, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 scream	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 scream	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scream	aux
4	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scream	nsubj
5	scream	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 comes	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fossa	det
8	fossa	fossa	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scream	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 loud	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 loud	nsubj
12	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 loud	cop
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 loud	advmod
14	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scream	conj
15	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 scream	discourse
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 scream	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scream	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 scream	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express in a quote	present · do-support	lemurs		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	present	a fossa		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	lemurs = lemur	loud property	tree rules
4	is	present		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

They want it to play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 play	mark
5	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	They	it					tree rules
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They give special alarm calls to warn each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 calls	amod
4	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calls	compound
5	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 warn	mark
7	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 give	advcl
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	7 warn	obj
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	They	special alarm calls					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme
2	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive	They not said here	each					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient

Option 3

They are hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					hungry property	tree rules

Option 4

They are singing to it to make it go back to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 singing	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 singing	aux
3	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 singing	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 singing	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 sleep	case
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present · progressive	They		it		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient
2	make	to-infinitive	They not said here	it			tree rules
3	go back	infinitive				to sleep result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sleep=Result

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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