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# Test 8 · ★ · The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes

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«tongue map: sweet at the tip, bitter at the back, learned it at school» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tongue map · **What happens:** learn, be · **To what, where:** back, school · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 299 «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes:t8:1
# text = «tongue map: sweet at the tip, bitter at the back, learned it at school» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
20	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** *in a quote* | past | tongue map | back |  | school |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Right, each taste has its own zone on the tongue, like a map

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes:t8:o1:1
# text = Right, each taste has its own zone on the tongue, like a map
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | each taste | taste's own zone and a map |  | the tongue |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zone=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Wrong, the tongue tastes only salt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes:t8:o2:1
# text = Wrong, the tongue tastes only salt
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | present | the tongue | salt |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme salt=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Right, but only for children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes:t8:o3:1
# text = Right, but only for children
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Wrong; all five tastes are sensed all over the tongue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes:t8:o4:1
# text = Wrong; all five tastes are sensed all over the tongue
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tastes	taste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	sensed	sense	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sense** | present · passive |  | all five tastes |  | the tongue |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |

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**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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