Test 9 · Senses: nose, tongue and skin
In a game your hero tastes poison and the bitter warning shows on screen. Why is a bitter taste useful in real life?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: hero, bitter warning, bitter taste · What happens: taste, show, be · To what, where: poison, game, screen, real life
This is test 9 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
Sentence 1: In a game your hero tastes poison and the bitter warning shows on screen.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 game | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tastes | obl |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hero | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tastes | nsubj |
| 6 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tastes | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shows | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 warning | det |
| 10 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 warning | amod |
| 11 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shows | nsubj |
| 12 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tastes | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 screen | case |
| 14 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shows | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tastes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | present | your hero | poison | a game | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent poison=Theme in game=Location | |||
| 2 | show | present | the bitter warning | screen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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.
Sentence 2: Why is a bitter taste useful in real life?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 useful | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 useful | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 taste | det |
| 4 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 taste | amod |
| 5 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 useful | nsubj |
| 6 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 life | amod |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 useful | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 useful | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a bitter taste | real life | useful property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Many poisons are bitter, so bitterness can warn us
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 poisons | amod |
| 2 | poisons | poison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bitter | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bitter | cop |
| 4 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 warn | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 warn | advmod |
| 7 | bitterness | bitterness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 warn | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 warn | aux |
| 9 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bitter | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 warn | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Many poisons | bitter property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | can | bitterness | us | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
Option 2
Bitter means the food is sweet inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bitter | bitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 food | det |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sweet | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sweet | cop |
| 6 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | ccomp |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 6 sweet | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Bitter | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the food | inside, sweet property | tree rules |
Option 3
Bitter things are always healthy, so we should eat more of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 healthy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 healthy | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 healthy | advmod |
| 5 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eat | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 eat | advmod |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 eat | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | aux |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 healthy | conj |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 eat | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 more | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Bitter things | always, healthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | should | we | more of things | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
Option 4
Bitter taste makes food go down faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bitter | bitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 taste | compound |
| 2 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 faster | advmod |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Bitter taste | food | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go down | infinitive | food not said here | fast property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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