Test 12 · ★ · The brain, nerves and the five senses

teacher said sweet is only tasted at the tip of the tongue. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher · What happens: say, taste · To what, where: sweet, tip · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tasted	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tasted	aux:pass
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 tasted	advmod
6	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 tip	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tip	det
9	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tasted	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 tongue	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tongue	det
12	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tip	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	taste	present · passive		sweet		the tip of the tongue			vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at tip=Location

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

Yes, the rest of the tongue tastes nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 tastes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rest	det
4	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tastes	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tongue	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tongue	det
7	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rest	nmod
8	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 tastes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	the rest of the tongue	nothing					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme nothing=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, taste buds all over the tongue sense every taste

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 sense	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buds	compound
4	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sense	nsubj
5	all	all	ADV	_	9 sense	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 sense	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sense	det
8	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sense	compound
9	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 taste	det
11	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sense	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yes, the tip is for sweet and the back for bitter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 sweet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tip	det
4	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sweet	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sweet	cop
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 sweet	case
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 back	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 back	det
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sweet	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 bitter	case
12	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sweet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the tip					for bitter; sweet property	tree rules

Option 4

No, sweet is tasted only at the back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 tasted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	sweet	sweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tasted	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tasted	aux:pass
5	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 back	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 back	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 back	det
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tasted	obl

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

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