Test 9 · ★ · The brain, nerves and the five senses

How does the brain learn that a mosquito bit your toe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brain · What happens: learn · To what, where: mosquito bit

This is test 9 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 learn	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 learn	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brain	det
4	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learn	nsubj
5	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 bit	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
8	mosquito	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	compound
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learn	obl
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 toe	nmod:poss
11	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 learn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present · do-support	the brain	a mosquito bit					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

The blood carries the pain to the brain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blood	det
2	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carries	nsubj
3	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pain	det
5	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carries	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 brain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brain	det
8	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carries	obl

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

Option 2

The skin shouts to the ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skin	det
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouts	nsubj
3	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 ears	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ears	det
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shouts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	the skin		the ears				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ear=Recipient

Option 3

The bone of the toe tells the skull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bone	det
2	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 toe	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 toe	det
5	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bone	nmod
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 skull	det
8	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the bone of the toe	the skull					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent skull=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A nerve sends a signal up the spinal cord to the brain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 nerve	det
2	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sends	nsubj
3	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 signal	det
5	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sends	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	9 cord	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cord	det
8	spinal	spinal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cord	amod
9	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sends	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 brain	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brain	det
12	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	a nerve	a signal		the brain		up the spinal cord	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent signal=Theme to brain=Destination

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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