Test 3 · ★ · The brain, nerves and the five senses

If the nerve from an eye to the brain were cut, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: cut, happen · To what, where: nerve

This is test 3 · ★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	11 cut	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nerve	det
3	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cut	nsubj:pass
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 eye	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eye	det
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nerve	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 brain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brain	det
9	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eye	nmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cut	aux:pass
11	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 happen	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cut	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 happen	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 happen	aux
15	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the nerve from a eye to the brain					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing at all, because eyes can see without the brain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 see	mark
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	parataxis
9	without	without	ADP	_	11 brain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brain	det
11	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	eyes					without the brain	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That eye could not send pictures to the brain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 eye	det
2	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 send	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 send	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 send	advmod
5	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 send	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 brain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brain	det
9	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not send	could	that eye	pictures		the brain			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Theme to brain=Destination

Option 3

The eye would see better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eye	det
2	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	the eye					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

The eye would start to hear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eye	det
2	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 start	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 start	aux
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hear	mark
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 start	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	the eye						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hear	to-infinitive	the eye not said here						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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