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title: Why could lemurs spread into about a hundred kinds on Madagascar? — Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why could lemurs spread into about a hundred kinds on Madagascar? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 163 «Madagascar: lemurs of every kind 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 10 · ★ · Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa

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Why could lemurs spread into about a hundred kinds on Madagascar?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lemurs · **What happens:** spread · **To what, where:** hundred kinds

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 163 «Madagascar: lemurs of every kind 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/163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t10:1
# text = Why could lemurs spread into about a hundred kinds on Madagascar?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | could | lemurs |  |  | hundred kinds on Madagascar |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into kind=Destination |

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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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The island was cut off for a very long time and had no monkeys to compete

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t10:o1:1
# text = The island was cut off for a very long time and had no monkeys to compete
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	compete	compete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | past · passive |  | the island |  |  | time |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | no monkeys |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **compete** | to-infinitive | no monkeys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Every lemur is really the same kind of animal, just in a different colour of fur

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t10:o2:1
# text = Every lemur is really the same kind of animal, just in a different colour of fur
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	lemur	lemur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | every lemur | the same kind |  | a different colour of fur |  | of animal | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Zoos bred them there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t10:o3:1
# text = Zoos bred them there
1	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bred	breed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breed** | past | Zoos | them *= they* |  | there |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They came by boat a few years ago

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t10:o4:1
# text = They came by boat a few years ago
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | They |  |  |  |  | by boat; ago *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by boat=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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