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Test 6 · ★ · Senses: eyes and ears

My uncle can't tell the red and green apples apart. What is most likely?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: uncle · What happens: not tell, be · To what, where: red apples · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 69 «Senses: eyes and ears» 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: My uncle can't tell the red and green apples apart.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 uncle	nmod:poss
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 apples	det
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 apples	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 green	cc
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 red	conj
10	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	obj
11	apart	apart	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	My uncle	the red apples				apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent apple=Recipient

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: What is most likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						likely property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

His blind spot has grown big enough to hide colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 spot	nmod:poss
2	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spot	amod
3	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grown	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grown	aux
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grown	xcomp
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hide	mark
9	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 big	advcl
10	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · perfect	His blind spot					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hide	to-infinitive	His blind spot not said here	colours					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

Option 2

He needs to eat a lot more carrots every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 eat	mark
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 needs	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 carrots	amod
8	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	a lot			day		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He is colour blind, which is common in men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blind	cop
3	colour	colour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blind	amod
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 common	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 common	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 common	cop
8	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blind	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 men	case
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 common	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					blind property	tree rules
2	is	present						in men; common property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He needs glasses to tell colours apart properly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 needs	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 needs	xcomp
6	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	obj
7	apart	apart	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
8	properly	properly	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	He	glasses					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	glasses not said here	colours				apart, properly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent colour=Recipient

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