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title: Jake says left-brained people are good at maths and right-brained pe… — The brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake says left-brained people are good at maths and right-brained people at art. Right? Test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 68 «The brain and nerves» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★★★ · The brain and nerves

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Jake says left-brained people are good at maths and right-brained people at art. Right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jake, brained people · **What happens:** say, brain, be · **To what, where:** maths · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 68 «The brain and nerves» 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/68-the-brain-and-nerves/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jake says left-brained people are good at maths and right-brained people at art.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:68-the-brain-and-nerves:t5:1
# text = Jake says left-brained people are good at maths and right-brained people at art.
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	brained	brain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	brained	brain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jake |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **brain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | brained people |  |  | maths and brained people at art |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **brain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:68-the-brain-and-nerves:t5:2
# text = Right?
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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No, artists use only their spinal cord

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:68-the-brain-and-nerves:t5:o1:1
# text = No, artists use only their spinal cord
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	spinal	spinal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | artists | artists's spinal cord |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, and they can never change sides

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:68-the-brain-and-nerves:t5:o2:1
# text = Yes, and they can never change sides
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **change** | can | they | sides |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No, that is a myth; both halves work together in everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:68-the-brain-and-nerves:t5:o3:1
# text = No, that is a myth; both halves work together in everyone
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	halves	half	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that | a myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work together** | present | both halves |  |  |  |  | in everyone; together *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in everyone=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, each person only ever uses one half of the brain at a time

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:68-the-brain-and-nerves:t5:o4:1
# text = Yes, each person only ever uses one half of the brain at a time
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | each person | one half of the brain |  |  | ever; time |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient |

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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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