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title: Identify the taste which the domestic cat is incapable of perceiving. — Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the taste which the domestic cat is incapable of perceiving. Exam question 2 of lesson 396 «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Exam question 2 · Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Wi…

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Identify the taste which the domestic cat is incapable of perceiving.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, taste · **What happens:** identify, be, perceive · **To what, where:** taste

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 396 «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker:e2:1
# text = Identify the taste which the domestic cat is incapable of perceiving.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	incapable	incapable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the taste |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent taste=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the taste |  |  |  |  | incapable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **perceive** | gerund | the taste *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Sweetness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker:e2:o1:1
# text = Sweetness
1	Sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bitterness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker:e2:o2:1
# text = Bitterness
1	Bitterness	bitterness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sourness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker:e2:o3:1
# text = Sourness
1	Sourness	sourness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Saltiness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker:e2:o4:1
# text = Saltiness
1	Saltiness	saltiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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