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title: «5 spider monkeys hanging off one branch, how many arms and tails is… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: «5 spider monkeys hanging off one branch, how many arms and tails is that» Test 2 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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# Test 2 · The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar

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«5 spider monkeys hanging off one branch, how many arms and tails is that»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** 5 spider monkeys · **What happens:** hang off, be · **To what, where:** one branch, that

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This is test 2 of lesson 86 «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» 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/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t2:1
# text = «5 spider monkeys hanging off one branch, how many arms and tails is that»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang off** *in a quote* | gerund | 5 spider monkeys and many arms and tails *not said here* | one branch |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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25 arms and 10 tails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t2:o1:1
# text = 25 arms and 10 tails
1	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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10 arms and no tails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t2:o2:1
# text = 10 arms and no tails
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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10 arms and 5 tails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t2:o3:1
# text = 10 arms and 5 tails
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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20 arms and 5 tails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t2:o4:1
# text = 20 arms and 5 tails
1	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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