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title: What would happen if the golden lion tamarins were bred in zoos but… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if the golden lion tamarins were bred in zoos but their forest kept being cut down? Test 7 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
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# Test 7 · The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar

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What would happen if the golden lion tamarins were bred in zoos but their forest kept being cut down?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** forest · **What happens:** happen, breed, keep, cut down · **To what, where:** golden lion tamarins, zoos, forest

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t7:1
# text = What would happen if the golden lion tamarins were bred in zoos but their forest kept being cut down?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tamarins	tamarin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **breed** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | the golden lion tamarins |  | zoos |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | participle · passive |  | tamarins's forest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cut down** | gerund · passive | tamarins's forest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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There would be nowhere safe in the wild to return them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t7:o1:1
# text = There would be nowhere safe in the wild to return them
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the wild |  | nowhere, safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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They would quickly learn to live without trees, on the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t7:o2:1
# text = They would quickly learn to live without trees, on the ground
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | would | They |  |  | the ground |  | quickly *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without trees | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, zoo tamarins never need the wild

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t7:o3:1
# text = Nothing, zoo tamarins never need the wild
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tamarins	tamarin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | present | zoo tamarins | the wild |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wild=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The zoos would run out of space at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t7:o4:1
# text = The zoos would run out of space at once
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | would | the zoos |  |  | space |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out space=Trajectory |

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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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