Test 4 · ★★ · Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, ea…

«why don't I see a hole in everything if each eye has a blind spot» What is the answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: blind spot, eye · What happens: see, have, be · To what, where: hole, everything, blind spot, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 362 «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness» 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	_	6 see	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 do	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 do	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hole	det
8	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 everything	case
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 hole	nmod
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 has	mark
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 eye	det
13	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	nsubj
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 see	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 spot	det
16	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 spot	amod
17	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 spot	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 answer	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 answer	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 answer	det
22	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spot	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see in a quote	present · do-support	a blind spot and the answer = spot	a hole	everything	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hole=Stimulus
2	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	each eye	a blind spot and the answer		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient
3	be speech: assert	present	a blind spot and the answer	the answer		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

We blink far too fast to ever notice the big dark hole in the middle of what we see

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 blink	nsubj
2	blink	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fast	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 blink	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	8 notice	mark
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 notice	advmod
8	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 blink	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hole	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hole	amod
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hole	amod
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 notice	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 middle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 middle	det
15	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hole	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 what	case
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 middle	nmod
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
19	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blink	present	We				fast property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	notice	to-infinitive	We not said here	the big dark hole	the middle of the big dark hole	ever		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hole=Stimulus
3	see	present	we					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The brain fills the hole with what is around it, and the other eye covers it

The tree, 16 words

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hole	det
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fills	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 hole	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 it	cop
9	around	around	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 what	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 covers	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 covers	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 eye	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eye	amod
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 covers	nsubj
16	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fills	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 covers	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fill	present	the brain	the hole		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hole=Patient with what=Instrument
2	is	present			hole	tree rules
3	cover	present	the other eye	brain		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination

Option 3

The blind spot only opens at night

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	5 opens	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 opens	advmod
5	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	present	the blind spot				night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

There is no blind spot at all, it is just a myth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 spot	det
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spot	amod
5	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 spot	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 myth	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 myth	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 myth	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 myth	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 myth	det
13	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no blind spot at all			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	spot	a myth					tree rules

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