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Test 10 · The human body deeper: the brain and nerves

Your eye has a blind spot. Why do you not see a hole in the world?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eye, you · What happens: have, not see · To what, where: blind spot, hole, world

This is test 10 of lesson 260 «The human body deeper: the brain and nerves» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Your eye has a blind spot.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eye	nmod:poss
2	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spot	det
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spot	amod
6	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Your eye	a blind spot					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: Why do you not see a hole in the world?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 see	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hole	det
7	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hole	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	present · do-support	you	a hole		the world			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hole=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

Only old people have a blind spot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 people	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spot	det
6	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spot	amod
7	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	old people	a blind spot					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient

Option 2

The other ear covers it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ear	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ear	amod
3	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covers	nsubj
4	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 covers	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present	the other ear	it					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The brain fills it in so you never notice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brain	det
2	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fills	nsubj
3	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fills	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 notice	mark
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 notice	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 notice	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 notice	advmod
9	notice	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fills	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	present	the brain	it					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	not notice	present	you						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The blind spot moves around too fast for you to see it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spot	det
2	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spot	amod
3	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moves	nsubj
4	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	around	around	ADV	_	4 moves	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 moves	advmod
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 see	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 moves	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move around	present	the blind spot					around, fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	you	spot					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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