Test 13 · ★ · The brain, nerves and the five senses

Jack says nerves carry messages like little tubes of water. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack, nerves · What happens: say, carry · To what, where: messages · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	nsubj
4	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 tubes	case
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tubes	amod
8	tubes	tube	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 messages	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tubes	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	2 says	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jack						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	carry	present	nerves	messages				like little tubes of water	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=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

Yes, nerves are little tubes full of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 tubes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tubes	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tubes	cop
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tubes	amod
6	tubes	tube	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tubes	amod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	nerves	little tubes					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, nerves carry messages as tiny sounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 carry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carry	punct
3	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	nsubj
4	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 sounds	case
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sounds	amod
8	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	nerves	messages				as tiny sounds	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, they carry tiny electrical signals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 carry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carry	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carry	nsubj
4	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 signals	amod
6	electrical	electrical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 signals	amod
7	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	they	tiny electrical signals					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme

Option 4

Yes, the water pushes the message along inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 pushes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	nsubj
5	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 message	det
7	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	obj
8	along	along	ADV	_	5 pushes	advmod
9	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 pushes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	the water	the message				along, inside property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme

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