Test 9 · ★ · Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa
A lemur fits in the palm of your hand and weighs as much as a few coins. Which is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lemur · What happens: fit, weigh, be · To what, where: palm, much
This is test 9 · ★ 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: A lemur fits in the palm of your hand and weighs as much as a few coins.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lemur | det |
| 2 | lemur | lemur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fits | nsubj |
| 3 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 palm | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palm | det |
| 6 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fits | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 palm | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 weighs | cc |
| 11 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fits | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 weighs | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 coins | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 coins | det |
| 16 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 coins | amod |
| 17 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 much | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | a lemur | the palm of your hand | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in palm=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | weigh | present | a lemur not said here | much | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value |
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 is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 it | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 it | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | palm | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A ring-tailed lemur
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lemur | det |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tailed | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 ring | punct |
| 4 | tailed | tail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lemur | amod |
| 5 | lemur | lemur | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tail | participle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
An indri
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 indri | det |
| 2 | indri | indri | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
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
A sifaka
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sifaka | det |
| 2 | sifaka | sifaka | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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