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Test 2 · ★ · The brain, nerves and the five senses

You hold your nose and eat a slice of apple and a slice of raw potato. Why is it hard to tell them apart?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: hold, eat, slice, be, tell · To what, where: nose, slice, apple, raw potato · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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: You hold your nose and eat a slice of apple and a slice of raw potato.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 hold	nsubj
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nose	nmod:poss
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 eat	cc
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hold	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 slice	det
8	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 apple	case
10	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slice	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 slice	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 slice	det
13	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 apple	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 potato	case
15	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 potato	amod
16	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slice	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	You	your nose					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
2	eat	infinitive	You not said here	a slice of apple and a slice of raw potato					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slice=Patient
3	slice			apple and a slice of raw potato					nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient
4	slice			raw potato					nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient

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 is it hard to tell them apart?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hard	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hard	expl
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	csubj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	apart	apart	ADV	_	6 tell	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						hard property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			apple			apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The tongue cannot sense anything when the nose is closed

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	5 sense	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sense	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sense	advmod
5	sense	sense	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 sense	obj
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 closed	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nose	det
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 closed	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 closed	aux:pass
11	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sense	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sense	can	the tongue	anything					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
2	close	present · passive		the nose					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Apple and potato are made of the same thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apple	Apple	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 potato	cc
3	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Apple	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 thing	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Apple and potato				of the same thing	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

Holding the nose stops the teeth chewing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stops	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nose	det
3	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 teeth	det
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stops	obj
7	chewing	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stops	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund		the nose					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
2	stop	present	Holding	the teeth					tree rules
3	chew	gerund	Holding not said here						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Without smell, much of their flavour is lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Without	without	ADP	_	2 smell	case
2	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 much	punct
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 smell	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 flavour	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 flavour	nmod:poss
7	flavour	flavour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 much	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux:pass
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		smell					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	flavour		their = they						nom flavour «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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