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title: Why would an African monkey never hang by its tail like a spider mon… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would an African monkey never hang by its tail like a spider monkey? Test 8 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 right.
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# Test 8 · The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar

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Why would an African monkey never hang by its tail like a spider monkey?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** African monkey · **What happens:** not hang

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t8:1
# text = Why would an African monkey never hang by its tail like a spider monkey?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hang** | would | a African monkey |  |  |  |  | by monkey's tail; like a spider monkey | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tail=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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African monkeys only live on the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t8:o1:1
# text = African monkeys only live on the ground
1	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	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 | **live** | present | African monkeys |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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African monkeys are too heavy for trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t8:o2:1
# text = African monkeys are too heavy for trees
1	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | African monkeys |  |  |  |  | for trees; heavy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No African or Asian monkey has a gripping tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t8:o3:1
# text = No African or Asian monkey has a gripping tail
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
2	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	gripping	grip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | no African monkey | a gripping tail |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 2 | **grip** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
African monkeys have no tails at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t8:o4:1
# text = African monkeys have no tails at all
1	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | African monkeys | no tails |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |

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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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