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title: Which nose belongs to a monkey from Peru, in South America? — Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops · tree and pragmatics
description: Which nose belongs to a monkey from Peru, in South America? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 15 «Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops» 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops

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Which nose belongs to a monkey from Peru, in South America?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nose · **What happens:** belong · **To what, where:** South America

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 15 «Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops» 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/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops:t9:1
# text = Which nose belongs to a monkey from Peru, in South America?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Peru	Peru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present | which nose |  |  | South America |  | to a monkey from Peru | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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A long floppy drooping nose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops:t9:o1:1
# text = A long floppy drooping nose
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	floppy	floppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	drooping	droop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **droop** | gerund | a long floppy *not said here* | nose |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nose=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A red nose with blue ridges

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops:t9:o2:1
# text = A red nose with blue ridges
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ridges	ridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A flat nose with nostrils pointing sideways

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops:t9:o3:1
# text = A flat nose with nostrils pointing sideways
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** | gerund | nostrils *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sideways *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A narrow nose with nostrils pointing down, like an African monkey's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops:t9:o4:1
# text = A narrow nose with nostrils pointing down, like an African monkey's
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point down** | gerund | nostrils | a narrow nose *not said here* |  |  |  | like a African monkey; down *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient |

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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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