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description: A tiny mouse lemur is busy at night but sleeps through the dry season. Where does its energy come from? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 127 «Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa

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A tiny mouse lemur is busy at night but sleeps through the dry season. Where does its energy come from?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** tiny mouse lemur, energy · **What happens:** be, sleep, come

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 127 «Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/127-madagascar-real-lemurs/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A tiny mouse lemur is busy at night but sleeps through the dry season.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs:t10:1
# text = A tiny mouse lemur is busy at night but sleeps through the dry season.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	lemur	lemur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a tiny mouse lemur |  |  |  | night | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sleep** | present | a tiny mouse lemur *not said here* |  |  |  | season |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Where does its energy come from?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs:t10:2
# text = Where does its energy come from?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · do-support | lemur's energy |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Water it drinks in its sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs:t10:o1:1
# text = Water it drinks in its sleep
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drinks	drink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | present | Water |  |  | Water's sleep |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sleep** |  | Water |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Fat stored in its tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs:t10:o2:1
# text = Fat stored in its tail
1	Fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **store** | participle |  | Fat *not said here* |  | Fat's tail |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tail=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sunlight soaking into its fur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs:t10:o3:1
# text = Sunlight soaking into its fur
1	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	soaking	soak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soak** | gerund | Sunlight *not said here* |  |  | Sunlight's fur |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Food brought by other lemurs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs:t10:o4:1
# text = Food brought by other lemurs
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | participle |  | Food *not said here* |  |  |  | by other lemurs | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |

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