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Test 5 · ★★★ · The brain and nerves

Jake says left-brained people are good at maths and right-brained people at art. Right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake, brained people · What happens: say, brain, be · To what, where: maths · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 68 «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: Jake says left-brained people are good at maths and right-brained people at art.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brained	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct
5	brained	brain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 good	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 good	cop
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 maths	case
10	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 good	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 people	cc
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 brained	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 right	punct
14	brained	brain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 people	amod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 maths	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 art	case
17	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 people	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jake						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	brain	participle							vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	brained people			maths and brained people at art		good property	tree rules
4	brain	participle							vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: Right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, artists use only their spinal cord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 use	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	artists	artist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 cord	advmod
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cord	nmod:poss
7	spinal	spinal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cord	amod
8	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	artists	artists's spinal cord					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient

Option 2

Yes, and they can never change sides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 change	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 change	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 change	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 change	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 change	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 change	advmod
7	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	can	they	sides					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, that is a myth; both halves work together in everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 myth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 myth	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 myth	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 myth	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 myth	det
6	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 work	punct
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 halves	det
9	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 work	nsubj
10	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 myth	parataxis
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 work	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 everyone	case
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	a myth					tree rules
2	work together	present	both halves					in everyone; together property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in everyone=Theme

Option 4

Yes, each person only ever uses one half of the brain at a time

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 uses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 person	det
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uses	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 uses	advmod
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 uses	advmod
7	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 half	nummod
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 uses	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 brain	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brain	det
12	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 half	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 time	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	each person	one half of the brain			ever; time		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient

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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