Test 7 · Senses: nose, tongue and skin

Why does a blind person read Braille with their fingertips and not their elbow?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: blind person · What happens: read · To what, where: Braille

This is test 7 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	6 read	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 read	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 person	amod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 read	nsubj
6	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	Braille	Braille	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 read	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 fingertips	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fingertips	nmod:poss
10	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 read	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 elbow	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 elbow	advmod
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 elbow	nmod:poss
14	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fingertips	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present · do-support	a blind person	Braille				with their fingertips and fingertips's elbow	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent braille=Topic

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

Elbows have no skin on them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elbows	elbow	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 skin	det
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Elbows	no skin				on them = they	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient

Option 2

Elbows are too far away from the eyes and the brain to read with them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 away	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 away	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eyes	det
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 away	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brain	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brain	det
11	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eyes	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 read	mark
13	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 away	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Elbows			the eyes and the brain		away, far property	tree rules
2	read	to-infinitive	Elbows not said here					with Elbows = elbow	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Fingertips can see the dots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dots	det
5	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	Fingertips	the dots					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dot=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fingertips are packed with touch sensors and feel tiny dots apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 packed	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 packed	aux:pass
3	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 sensors	case
5	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sensors	compound
6	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 packed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 feel	cc
8	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 packed	conj
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dots	amod
10	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 feel	obj
11	apart	apart	ADV	_	8 feel	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	present · passive		Fingertips				with touch sensors	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with sensor=Theme
2	feel	present		tiny dots				apart property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dot=Theme

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