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Test 9 · The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar

A cartoon monkey slips on a banana skin and flies across the room. What did scientists really find?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon monkey, scientists · What happens: slip, fly, find · To what, where: banana skin, room

This is test 9 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: A cartoon monkey slips on a banana skin and flies across the room.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 monkey	compound
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slips	nsubj
4	slips	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 skin	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 skin	det
7	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skin	compound
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slips	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flies	cc
10	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slips	conj
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 room	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flies	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slips	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	present	a cartoon monkey			a banana skin			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	fly	present	a cartoon monkey not said here			the room			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across room=Trajectory

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 did scientists really find?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 find	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 find	advmod
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	scientists						vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Monkeys slip on them every day in zoos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slip	nsubj
2	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slip	obl
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slip	obl:unmarked
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 zoos	case
8	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slip	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	present	Monkeys				day	on them = they; in zoos	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in zoo=Attribute

Option 2

Banana skins are not slippery at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skins	compound
2	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slippery	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slippery	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 slippery	advmod
5	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 slippery	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Banana skins			all		slippery property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The skin has a slippery gel, but monkeys peel bananas neatly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skin	det
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gel	det
5	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gel	amod
6	gel	gel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 peel	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 peel	cc
9	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 peel	nsubj
10	peel	peel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
11	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 peel	obj
12	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	10 peel	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the skin	a slippery gel					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gel=Patient
2	peel	present	monkeys	bananas				neatly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Source

Option 4

Bananas grow already peeled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 peeled	advmod
4	peeled	peel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Bananas						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	peel	participle	Bananas not said here						vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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