Test 7 · ★ · The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes

«my food tastes of nothing with this cold, my tongue's broken» What is really going on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: food · What happens: taste, break, go on · To what, where: tongue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 299 «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 tastes	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 food	nmod:poss
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tastes	nsubj
4	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 nothing	case
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 tastes	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 cold	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 cold	det
9	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nothing	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 broken	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tongue	nmod:poss
12	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 broken	nsubj:pass
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 broken	aux:pass
14	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tastes	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 broken	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 going	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 going	aux
18	really	really	ADV	_	19 going	advmod
19	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 broken	parataxis
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 going	compound:prt
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tastes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	taste in a quote	present	my food		of nothing	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	break in a quote	present · passive		my tongue		tree rules
3	go on	present · progressive				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The blocked nose stops smell, which does a big part of tasting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nose	det
2	blocked	block	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 nose	amod
3	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	nsubj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 does	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 does	nsubj
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 smell	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 part	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 part	amod
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 does	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 tasting	case
13	tasting	tasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	block	participle			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	stop	present	the blocked nose	smell	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality smell=Eventuality
3	do	present	smell	a big part of tasting	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality

Option 2

Taste buds fall out during a cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buds	compound
2	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fall	nsubj
3	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 fall	compound:prt
5	during	during	ADP	_	7 cold	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cold	det
7	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall out	present	Taste buds				during a cold		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Food really loses its flavour in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loses	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 loses	advmod
3	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 flavour	nmod:poss
5	flavour	flavour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loses	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	Food	Food's flavour			winter		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flavour=Eventuality
2	flavour		Food						nom flavour «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

The cold virus has killed the tongue and it will never taste again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 virus	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 virus	amod
3	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 killed	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 killed	aux
5	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tongue	det
7	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 killed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 taste	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 taste	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 taste	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 taste	advmod
12	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 killed	conj
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 taste	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present · perfect · passive		the cold virus					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer tongue=Result
2	not taste	future	virus				again		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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