Exam question 1 · The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar
Identify the location to which the lemurs are confined in the wild.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, confine · To what, where: location, lemurs, wild
This is exam question 1 of lesson 86 «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 location | det |
| 3 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 confined | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lemurs | det |
| 7 | lemurs | lemur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 confined | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 confined | aux:pass |
| 9 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 location | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wild | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wild | det |
| 12 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 confined | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the location | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme | ||||
| 2 | confine | present · passive | the lemurs | the wild | to the location | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to which=Destination |
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 rainforests of South America
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rainforests | det |
| 2 | rainforests | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 America | case |
| 4 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 America | compound |
| 5 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rainforests | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The island of Madagascar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 island | det |
| 2 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Madagascar | case |
| 4 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 island | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The whole of continental Africa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 whole | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Africa | case |
| 4 | continental | continental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Africa | amod |
| 5 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 whole | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The whole Indian subcontinent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 subcontinent | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 subcontinent | amod |
| 3 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 subcontinent | amod |
| 4 | subcontinent | subcontinent | 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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