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title: «who sings in the forest at dawn, sounds like a siren» in Madagascar… — Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: «who sings in the forest at dawn, sounds like a siren» in Madagascar. Which animal fits best? Test 11 · ★ 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 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa

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«who sings in the forest at dawn, sounds like a siren» in Madagascar. Which animal fits best?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** animal · **What happens:** sing, sound, fit · **To what, where:** forest, Madagascar

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «who sings in the forest at dawn, sounds like a siren» in Madagascar.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t11:1
# text = «who sings in the forest at dawn, sounds like a siren» in Madagascar.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	siren	siren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | the forest | dawn |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location |
| 2 | **sound** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | Madagascar |  | like a siren | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in madagascar=Location |

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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:* Which animal fits best?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t11:2
# text = Which animal fits best?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | present | which animal |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A fossa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t11:o1:1
# text = A fossa
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fossa	fossa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A chameleon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t11:o2:1
# text = A chameleon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chameleon	chameleon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A mouse lemur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t11:o3:1
# text = A mouse lemur
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lemur	lemur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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An indri family

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t11:o4:1
# text = An indri family
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	indri	indri	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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