Test 4 · The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar

«lemur's just a monkey from Madagascar, same thing» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lemur, same thing · What happens: be · To what, where: monkey, Madagascar

This is test 4 of lesson 86 «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» 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	_	6 monkey	punct
2	lemur	lemur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 monkey	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 monkey	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 monkey	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Madagascar	case
8	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 monkey	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 monkey	conj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 monkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	lemur	a monkey and same thing		Madagascar			tree rules
2	is	present	same thing					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 · ✓ the right answer

Lemurs are an older branch of primates, not monkeys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 branch	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 branch	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 branch	det
4	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 branch	amod
5	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 primates	case
7	primates	primate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 branch	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 monkeys	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 monkeys	advmod
10	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 primates	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lemurs	a older branch				of primates and monkeys	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, all primates are monkeys, so lemurs are monkeys too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 monkeys	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 primates	det
4	primates	primate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 monkeys	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 monkeys	cop
6	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 monkeys	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 monkeys	advmod
9	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 monkeys	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 monkeys	cop
11	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 monkeys	conj
12	too	too	ADV	_	11 monkeys	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	all primates	monkeys and monkeys					tree rules
2	is a	present	lemurs	monkeys					tree rules

Option 3

Lemurs are baby monkeys that grow up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 monkeys	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 monkeys	cop
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 monkeys	compound
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 grow	nsubj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 monkeys	acl:relcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 grow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lemurs	baby monkeys					tree rules
2	grow up	present	baby monkeys						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Lemurs are a kind of cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 cat	case
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lemurs	a kind				of cat	tree rules

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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