Test 8 · ★ · The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes

«tongue map: sweet at the tip, bitter at the back, learned it at school» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tongue map · What happens: learn, be · To what, where: back, school · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	3 map	punct
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 map	compound
3	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 learned	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 sweet	punct
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 map	amod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 tip	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tip	det
8	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sweet	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bitter	punct
10	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sweet	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 back	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 back	det
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bitter	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 map	punct
15	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 learned	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 school	case
18	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 learned	obl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 learned	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 right	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 right	cop
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 learned	parataxis
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 learned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn in a quote	past	tongue map	back		school			tree rules
2	is	present						right property	tree rules

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

Right, each taste has its own zone on the tongue, like a map

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 taste	det
4	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 zone	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 zone	amod
8	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 tongue	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tongue	det
11	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 zone	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 map	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 map	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 map	det
15	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 zone	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	each taste	taste's own zone and a map		the tongue			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zone=Patient

Option 2

Wrong, the tongue tastes only salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tastes	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tongue	det
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tastes	nsubj
5	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 salt	advmod
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tastes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	the tongue	salt					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme salt=Attribute

Option 3

Right, but only for children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 children	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 children	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 children	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 children	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Wrong; all five tastes are sensed all over the tongue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 sensed	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 tastes	det
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 tastes	nummod
5	tastes	taste	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sensed	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sensed	aux:pass
7	sensed	sense	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wrong	conj
8	all	all	ADV	_	11 tongue	advmod
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 tongue	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tongue	det
11	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sensed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense	present · passive		all five tastes		the tongue			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=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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