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title: A museum shows an egg much bigger than a rugby ball from Madagascar.… — Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: A museum shows an egg much bigger than a rugby ball from Madagascar. Whose egg is it? Test 7 · ★ 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 wa
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# Test 7 · ★ · Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa

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A museum shows an egg much bigger than a rugby ball from Madagascar. Whose egg is it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** museum, egg · **What happens:** show, be · **To what, where:** egg

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A museum shows an egg much bigger than a rugby ball from Madagascar.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t7:1
# text = A museum shows an egg much bigger than a rugby ball from Madagascar.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	ccomp	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a museum | a egg |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent egg=Recipient |

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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:* Whose egg is it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t7:2
# text = Whose egg is it?
1	Whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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An aye-aye's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t7:o1:1
# text = An aye-aye's
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	aye	aye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	aye	aye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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An elephant bird's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t7:o2:1
# text = An elephant bird's
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A giant lemur's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t7:o3:1
# text = A giant lemur's
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lemur	lemur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A fossa's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t7:o4:1
# text = A fossa's
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fossa	fossa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
```

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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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