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Test 8 · ★ · Your amazing brain and senses

Nan learned at school that brain cells never grow back. Why might her book say that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nan, brain cells, book · What happens: learn, not grow back, say · To what, where: school, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Nan learned at school that brain cells never grow back.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 learned	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 grow	obj
6	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cells	compound
7	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grow	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 grow	advmod
9	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 school	acl:relcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 grow	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 learned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	Nan			school			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not grow back	present	brain cells	school					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme

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 might her book say that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 book	nmod:poss
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 say	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	might	Nan's book	that					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Scientists thought so then; newer research changed the picture

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 then	advmod
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 thought	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 changed	punct
6	newer	new	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 research	amod
7	research	research	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 changed	nsubj
8	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 picture	det
10	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 changed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Scientists				then		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	change	past	newer research	the picture					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient

Option 2

Her teacher made it up as a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teacher	nmod:poss
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 made	compound:prt
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 joke	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	Her teacher	it				as a joke	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot

Option 3

Old books are always right and new ones wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 books	amod
2	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 right	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 right	advmod
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wrong	cc
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wrong	nsubj
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Old books					always, right property	tree rules
2	be		new ones						tree rules

Option 4

Brain cells really did stop growing in people back in those days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cells	compound
2	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 growing	obl
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 growing	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 days	case
11	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 days	det
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past · do-support	Brain cells						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow back	gerund	Brain cells not said here				day	in people	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in people=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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