Test 5 · The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar
Rafiki in The Lion King looks like a mandrill crossed with a baboon. What is true about real mandrills?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rafiki · What happens: look, cross, be · To what, where: mandrill
This is test 5 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
Sentence 1: Rafiki in The Lion King looks like a mandrill crossed with a baboon.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rafiki | Rafiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 King | case |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 4 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | compound |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Rafiki | nmod |
| 6 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 mandrill | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mandrill | det |
| 9 | mandrill | mandrill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looks | obl |
| 10 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 mandrill | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 baboon | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 baboon | det |
| 13 | baboon | baboon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crossed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Rafiki in the Lion King | like a mandrill | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cross | participle | a mandrill not said here | with a baboon | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: What is true about real mandrills?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 mandrills | case |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mandrills | amod |
| 6 | mandrills | mandrill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 true | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | about real mandrills; true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They live in Madagascar with lemurs
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 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Madagascar | case |
| 4 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 lemurs | case |
| 6 | lemurs | lemur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | They | Madagascar | with lemurs | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in madagascar=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Males have bright blue and red faces that show rank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 faces | amod |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 faces | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 red | cc |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blue | conj |
| 7 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 show | nsubj |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 faces | acl:relcl |
| 10 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 show | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Males | bright blue faces | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 2 | show | present | bright blue faces | rank | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rank=Recipient |
Option 3
They are white all over with pink faces, like a snow monkey
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 white | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 white | cop |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 over | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 white | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 faces | case |
| 7 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 faces | amod |
| 8 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 white | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 monkey | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 monkey | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 monkey | det |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 monkey | compound |
| 13 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 white | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | with pink faces; over, white property | tree rules |
Option 4
They carry a stick and do magic
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 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stick | det |
| 4 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carry | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 do | cc |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 carry | conj |
| 7 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | They | a stick | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | They not said here | magic | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Eventuality |
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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