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title: Identify the location to which the lemurs are confined in the wild. — The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the location to which the lemurs are confined in the wild. Exam question 1 of lesson 86 «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» 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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# Exam question 1 · The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar

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Identify the location to which the lemurs are confined in the wild.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, confine · **To what, where:** location, lemurs, wild

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 86 «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:e1:1
# text = Identify the location to which the lemurs are confined in the wild.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the location |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme |
| 2 | **confine** | present · passive |  | the lemurs |  | the wild |  | to the location | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to which=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 {#o1}

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The rainforests of South America

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:e1:o1:1
# text = The rainforests of South America
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rainforests	rainforest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The island of Madagascar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:e1:o2:1
# text = The island of Madagascar
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The whole of continental Africa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:e1:o3:1
# text = The whole of continental Africa
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	continental	continental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The whole Indian subcontinent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:e1:o4:1
# text = The whole Indian subcontinent
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	subcontinent	subcontinent	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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