Test 3 · Senses: nose, tongue and skin

What would happen if you held your nose while eating a strawberry sweet?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, hold, eat · To what, where: nose, strawberry sweet

This is test 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 held	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 held	nsubj
6	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nose	nmod:poss
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	obj
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 eating	mark
10	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 held	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sweet	det
12	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sweet	compound
13	sweet	sweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eating	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold a condition, not said to happen	past	you	your nose	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
3	eat	gerund	you not said here	a strawberry sweet	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

It would taste far less of strawberry, mostly just sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taste	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 taste	aux
3	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 less	advmod
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 taste	advmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 strawberry	case
7	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 less	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sweet	punct
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	11 sweet	advmod
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 sweet	advmod
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taste	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	would	It						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It would taste twice as strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taste	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 taste	aux
3	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 taste	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taste	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	would	It					strong, twice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

It would taste salty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taste	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 taste	aux
3	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taste	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	would	It					salty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would taste of nothing at all, not even a little bit sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taste	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 taste	aux
3	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 nothing	case
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 taste	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 taste	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bit	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 bit	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	13 bit	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bit	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bit	amod
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taste	obl
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bit	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	would	It	a little bit		all		of nothing	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location

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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