Exam question 3 · The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the prehensile tail.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, prehensile tail

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tail	det
11	prehensile	prehensile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tail	amod
12	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the prehensile tail		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tail=Experiencer

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

It occurs only in the lemurs of Madagascar

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	2 occurs	nsubj
2	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 lemurs	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 lemurs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lemurs	det
6	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 occurs	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Madagascar	case
8	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lemurs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	present	It	the lemurs of Madagascar					tree rules

Option 2

It occurs in all monkeys without exception

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	2 occurs	nsubj
2	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 monkeys	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 monkeys	det
5	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 occurs	obl
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 exception	case
7	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 occurs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	present	It					in all monkeys; without exception	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in monkey=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It occurs in some American monkeys, but in no African or Asian monkey

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	2 occurs	nsubj
2	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 monkeys	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 monkeys	det
5	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 monkeys	amod
6	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 occurs	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 monkey	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 monkey	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	14 monkey	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 monkey	det
11	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 monkey	amod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 Asian	cc
13	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 African	conj
14	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 occurs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	present	It					in some American monkeys; in no African monkey	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in monkey=Location

Option 4

It occurs only in the great apes

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	2 occurs	nsubj
2	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 apes	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 apes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 apes	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 apes	amod
7	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 occurs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	present	It	the great apes					tree rules

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