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title: «lemurs = monkeys from Africa innit» What is right? — Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye a… · tree and pragmatics
description: «lemurs = monkeys from Africa innit» What is right? Test 4 · ★★ 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 option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa

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«lemurs = monkeys from Africa innit» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lemurs · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs:t4:1
# text = «lemurs = monkeys from Africa innit» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	4	punct	_	_
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | lemurs and monkeys from Africa innit |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Lemurs are primates but not monkeys, and live wild only on Madagascar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs:t4:o1:1
# text = Lemurs are primates but not monkeys, and live wild only on Madagascar
1	Lemurs	lemur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	primates	primate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	live	live	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Lemurs | primates but monkeys |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | infinitive |  |  |  | Madagascar |  | wild *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on madagascar=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Right, they are African monkeys that also live in India

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs:t4:o2:1
# text = Right, they are African monkeys that also live in India
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | they | African monkeys |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present |  | African monkeys |  | India |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme that=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Wrong, they are cats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs:t4:o3:1
# text = Wrong, they are cats
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | they | Wrong cats |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Right, they came from the zoo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs:t4:o4:1
# text = Right, they came from the zoo
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | they |  |  | the zoo |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from zoo=Initial\_Location |

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**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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