Test 10 · ★ · Your amazing brain and senses

Which tells you a brain claim might be a sales trick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brain claim · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: you, sales trick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2 «Your amazing brain and senses» of the myths 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 tells	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 claim	det
5	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 claim	compound
6	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trick	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 trick	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 trick	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 trick	det
10	sales	sales	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trick	compound
11	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present			you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is a	might	a brain claim	a sales trick					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

The person telling you is selling the fix for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 selling	nsubj
3	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 person	acl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 telling	iobj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 selling	aux
6	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fix	det
8	fix	fix	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 selling	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 selling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund	the person not said here		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	sell	present · progressive	the person	the fix				for fix	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent fix=Theme for it=Asset

Option 2

It matches what brain scans show

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	2 matches	nsubj
2	matches	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 show	obj
4	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scans	compound
5	scans	scan	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 show	nsubj
6	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 matches	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	match	present	It						tree rules
2	show	present	brain scans						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

Option 3

It was checked by many scientists

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 checked	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 checked	aux:pass
3	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 scientists	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scientists	amod
6	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 checked	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	past · passive	many scientists	It					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

It comes from a large, careful study with thousands of people

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	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	8 study	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 study	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 study	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 large	punct
7	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 study	amod
8	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 thousands	case
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 study	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 people	case
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thousands	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	It			a large careful study with thousands of people			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from study=Initial_Location

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