Test 1 · Senses: nose, tongue and skin

my cousin says the tip of the tongue does sweet and the back does bitter. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, tip, back · What happens: say, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 70 «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tip	det
5	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 tongue	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tongue	det
8	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tip	nmod
9	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 does	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 does	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 back	det
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 does	nsubj
14	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 does	conj
15	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 does	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
17	right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	present	the tip of the tongue	sweet property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	present	the back	bitter property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, only the middle can taste anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 taste	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 middle	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taste	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 taste	aux
7	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 taste	obj

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

Option 2

Yes, but only for children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 children	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	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 3

Yes, each taste has its own area and they never mix at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	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 area	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 area	amod
8	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mix	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mix	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 mix	advmod
12	mix	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 mix	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	each taste	taste's own area					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Patient
2	not mix	present	they			all			vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, that tongue map is a myth: all parts taste all five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 myth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 myth	punct
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 map	det
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 map	compound
5	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 myth	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 myth	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 myth	det
8	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 taste	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 parts	det
11	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 taste	nsubj
12	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 myth	parataxis
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 five	advmod
14	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 taste	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that tongue map	a myth					tree rules
2	taste	present	all parts	five					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme five=Attribute

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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