Test 8 · ★ · The brain, nerves and the five senses
A blindfolded girl knows her mum is baking a cake. Which sense tells her?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: blindfolded girl, mum, sense · What happens: blindfold, know, bake, tell · To what, where: cake, mum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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: A blindfolded girl knows her mum is baking a cake.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | blindfolded | blindfold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mum | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 baking | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 baking | aux |
| 8 | baking | bake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 knows | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cake | det |
| 10 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 baking | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blindfold | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | know | present | a blindfolded girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | bake | present · progressive | girl's mum | a cake | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product |
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: Which sense tells her?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 sense | det |
| 2 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tells | iobj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | which sense | mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Smell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Touch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Taste only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 1 Taste | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Sight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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