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Test 1 · ★ · The brain, nerves and the five senses

A friend says "bitter is tasted only at the back of the tongue". What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: say, taste, be · To what, where: back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 34 «The brain, nerves and the five senses» of the world 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: A friend says "bitter is tasted only at the back of the tongue".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 tasted	punct
5	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tasted	compound
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tasted	aux:pass
7	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 back	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 back	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 back	det
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tasted	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 tongue	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tongue	det
14	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 back	nmod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 tasted	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	taste in a quote	present · passive		the back of the tongue					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: back=Attribute

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: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Bitter is tasted only by the nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bitter	bitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tasted	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tasted	aux:pass
3	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	3 tasted	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 nose	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nose	det
7	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tasted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present · passive	the nose	Bitter					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme subject=Attribute

Option 2

Yes, the back is the only place for bitter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 place	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 back	det
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 place	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
7	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	amod
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 bitter	case
10	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the back	the only place				for bitter	tree rules

Option 3

Bitter is tasted only on the tip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bitter	bitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tasted	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tasted	aux:pass
3	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 tip	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 tip	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tip	det
7	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tasted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present · passive		Bitter		the tip			vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on tip=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bitter, like every taste, can be sensed all over the tongue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bitter	bitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sensed	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 taste	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 taste	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 taste	det
5	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bitter	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bitter	punct
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sensed	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 sensed	aux:pass
9	sensed	sense	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	all	all	ADV	_	13 tongue	advmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 tongue	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tongue	det
13	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sensed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense	can · passive		Bitter and every taste		the tongue			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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