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title: A cartoon monkey slips on a banana skin and flies across the room. W… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon monkey slips on a banana skin and flies across the room. What did scientists really find? Test 9 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 c
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# Test 9 · The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar

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A cartoon monkey slips on a banana skin and flies across the room. What did scientists really find?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cartoon monkey, scientists · **What happens:** slip, fly, find · **To what, where:** banana skin, room

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon monkey slips on a banana skin and flies across the room.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t9:1
# text = A cartoon monkey slips on a banana skin and flies across the room.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	slips	slip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	across	across	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** | present | a cartoon monkey |  |  | a banana skin |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **fly** | present | a cartoon monkey *not said here* |  |  | the room |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across room=Trajectory |

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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:* What did scientists really find?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t9:2
# text = What did scientists really find?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · do-support | scientists |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Monkeys slip on them every day in zoos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t9:o1:1
# text = Monkeys slip on them every day in zoos
1	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** | present | Monkeys |  |  |  | day | on them *= they*; in zoos | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in zoo=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Banana skins are not slippery at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t9:o2:1
# text = Banana skins are not slippery at all
1	Banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Banana skins |  |  | all |  | slippery *property* | tree rules |

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

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The skin has a slippery gel, but monkeys peel bananas neatly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t9:o3:1
# text = The skin has a slippery gel, but monkeys peel bananas neatly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	gel	gel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	peel	peel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the skin | a slippery gel |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gel=Patient |
| 2 | **peel** | present | monkeys | bananas |  |  |  | neatly *property* | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bananas grow already peeled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t9:o4:1
# text = Bananas grow already peeled
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	already	already	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	peeled	peel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Bananas |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **peel** | participle | Bananas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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