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title: A monkey, a parrot and a sloth spend almost all their lives high in… — Deserts, rainforests and grasslands · tree and pragmatics
description: A monkey, a parrot and a sloth spend almost all their lives high in the trees. In which layer do they live? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 66 «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» of the world 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 4 · ★ · Deserts, rainforests and grasslands

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A monkey, a parrot and a sloth spend almost all their lives high in the trees. In which layer do they live?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** monkey · **What happens:** spend, live · **To what, where:** lives, layer

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 66 «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» of the world 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/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A monkey, a parrot and a sloth spend almost all their lives high in the trees.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t4:1
# text = A monkey, a parrot and a sloth spend almost all their lives high in the trees.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sloth	sloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	spend	spend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | present | a monkey and a parrot and a sloth | monkey's lives |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset |

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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:* In which layer do they live?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t4:2
# text = In which layer do they live?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	layer	layer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present · do-support | monkey |  |  | which layer |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in layer=Location |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The roots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t4:o1:1
# text = The roots
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The riverbed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t4:o2:1
# text = The riverbed
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	riverbed	riverbed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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The canopy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t4:o3:1
# text = The canopy
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	canopy	canopy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The forest floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t4:o4:1
# text = The forest floor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	floor	floor	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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