Test 11 · ★ · The brain, nerves and the five senses

got a cold n food tastes of nothing, how come

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: taste, come · To what, where: cold n food

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tastes	aux:pass
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 food	det
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
4	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	compound
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tastes	nsubj
6	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 nothing	case
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 tastes	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	past · passive		a cold n food				of nothing	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Attribute
2	come	infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

The cold kills the taste buds for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cold	det
2	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kills	nsubj
3	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 buds	det
5	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buds	compound
6	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kills	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 good	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kills	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	the cold	the taste buds				for good	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bud=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Most flavour comes from smell, and a blocked nose cannot smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 flavour	amod
2	flavour	flavour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 smell	case
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 smell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 smell	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 nose	det
9	blocked	block	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 nose	amod
10	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 smell	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 smell	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 smell	advmod
13	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 comes	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	come	present	Most flavour	smell	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from smell=Initial_Location
2	block	participle			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
3	not smell	can	a blocked nose		vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The tongue stops working for the whole cold every time you sneeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tongue	det
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stops	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 cold	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cold	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cold	amod
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 working	obl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stops	obl:unmarked
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 sneeze	nsubj
12	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 time	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	the tongue		time		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	the tongue not said here			for the whole cold	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for cold=Beneficiary
3	sneeze	present	you	every time not said here			tree rules

Option 4

Germs eat the taste of the food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 taste	det
4	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 food	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 food	det
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Germs	the taste of the food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient
2	taste			the food					nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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