Test 5 · Senses: nose, tongue and skin

Why can a bird eat a chilli pepper that would make a person cry?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bird, chilli pepper, person · What happens: eat, make, cry · To what, where: chilli pepper, person

This is test 5 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 eat	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pepper	det
7	chilli	chilli	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pepper	compound
8	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 make	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 pepper	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
14	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	can	a bird	a chilli pepper	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pepper=Patient
2	make	would	a chilli pepper	a person	tree rules
3	cry speech: express	infinitive	a person not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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

Birds swallow it so fast it cannot burn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swallow	nsubj
2	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swallow	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 swallow	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 burn	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 burn	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 burn	advmod
9	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 swallow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	present	Birds	it				fast property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	not burn	can	it						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Birds do not feel capsaicin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	capsaicin	capsaicin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel	present · do-support	Birds	capsaicin					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capsaicin=Theme

Option 3

Birds have fireproof stomachs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fireproof	fireproof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stomachs	amod
4	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Birds	fireproof stomachs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient

Option 4

Birds have no tongues at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 tongues	det
4	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Birds	no tongues		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient

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