Test 4 · ★ · The brain, nerves and the five senses

Which is true about nerves?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 nerves	case
5	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about nerves; true property	tree rules

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

They are hollow tubes full of air, like straws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tubes	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tubes	cop
3	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tubes	amod
4	tubes	tube	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tubes	amod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 air	case
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 straws	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 straws	case
10	straws	straw	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tubes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	hollow tubes and straws					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They only carry messages from the brain to the body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carry	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 carry	advmod
3	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 brain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brain	det
7	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 body	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 body	det
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	They	messages		the brain		to the body	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme from brain=Initial_Location to body=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They carry messages to and from the brain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 brain	case
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 from	cc
6	from	from	ADP	_	4 to	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brain	det
8	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	They	messages		the brain			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to brain=Destination

Option 4

They carry blood up to the brain and back again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 carry	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 brain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brain	det
7	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 back	cc
9	back	back	ADV	_	7 brain	conj
10	again	again	ADV	_	2 carry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry up	present	They	blood		the brain	again		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme to brain=Destination

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