Test 7 · ★ · The brain, nerves and the five senses

Why do bicycle helmets matter so much?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bicycle helmets · What happens: matter

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 matter	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	aux
3	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helmets	compound
4	helmets	helmet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 matter	nsubj
5	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	5 matter	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 matter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present · do-support	bicycle helmets						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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

They keep the ears and the hair warm in the wind on cold winter rides

The tree, 15 words

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 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ears	det
4	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hair	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hair	det
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ears	conj
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wind	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wind	det
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 rides	case
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rides	amod
14	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rides	compound
15	rides	ride	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	They	the ears and the hair		the wind		on cold winter rides; warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ear=Theme in wind=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They help protect the brain, which controls the whole 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	2 help	nsubj
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 help	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brain	det
5	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 protect	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 controls	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 controls	nsubj
8	controls	control	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 brain	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 body	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 body	amod
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 controls	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	help	present	They		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	protect	infinitive	They not said here	the brain	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Beneficiary
3	control	present	the brain	the whole body	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme

Option 3

They improve your sense of smell

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 improve	nsubj
2	improve	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sense	nmod:poss
4	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 improve	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 smell	case
6	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sense	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve	present	They	your sense of smell					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
2	sense		your	smell					nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

Option 4

They make you ride faster

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 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 ride	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	you					tree rules
2	ride	infinitive	you not said here					fast property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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