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# Test 1 · ★ · The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps

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«polar bears eat penguins at the North Pole, saw it on a mug» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** polar bears, mug · **What happens:** eat, see, be · **To what, where:** penguins, North Pole, Pole, mug

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 129 «The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps» 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/129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps:t1:1
# text = «polar bears eat penguins at the North Pole, saw it on a mug» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mug	mug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | polar bears | penguins |  | the North Pole |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penguin=Patient |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | polar bears *not said here* | Pole |  | a mug |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | a mug |  |  |  |  | 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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Impossible: wild penguins live only in the south and polar bears in the north

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps:t1:o1:1
# text = Impossible: wild penguins live only in the south and polar bears in the north
1	Impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Impossible wild penguins |  |  | the south and polar bears |  | in the north | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in south=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
True, it happens every day on the ice, because both of them live at the North Pole

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps:t1:o2:1
# text = True, it happens every day on the ice, because both of them live at the North Pole
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | it |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | present | both |  |  | the North Pole |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pole=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
True, polar bears love penguins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps:t1:o3:1
# text = True, polar bears love penguins
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | True polar bears | penguins |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer penguin=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
True, but only in summer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps:t1:o4:1
# text = True, but only in summer
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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