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title: My uncle can't tell the red and green apples apart. What is most lik… — Senses: eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: My uncle can't tell the red and green apples apart. What is most likely? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 69 «Senses: eyes and ears» 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 6 · ★ · Senses: eyes and ears

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My uncle can't tell the red and green apples apart. What is most likely?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** uncle · **What happens:** not tell, be · **To what, where:** red apples · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 69 «Senses: eyes and ears» 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/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* My uncle can't tell the red and green apples apart.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:69-senses-eyes-and-ears:t6:1
# text = My uncle can't tell the red and green apples apart.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
11	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | My uncle | the red apples |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent apple=Recipient |

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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:* What is most likely?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:69-senses-eyes-and-ears:t6:2
# text = What is most likely?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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His blind spot has grown big enough to hide colours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:69-senses-eyes-and-ears:t6:o1:1
# text = His blind spot has grown big enough to hide colours
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present · perfect | His blind spot |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | to-infinitive | His blind spot *not said here* | colours |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He needs to eat a lot more carrots every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:69-senses-eyes-and-ears:t6:o2:1
# text = He needs to eat a lot more carrots every day
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | He *not said here* | a lot |  |  | day |  | tree rules |

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

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He is colour blind, which is common in men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:69-senses-eyes-and-ears:t6:o3:1
# text = He is colour blind, which is common in men
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	colour	colour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | in men; common *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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He needs glasses to tell colours apart properly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:69-senses-eyes-and-ears:t6:o4:1
# text = He needs glasses to tell colours apart properly
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | He | glasses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | glasses *not said here* | colours |  |  |  | apart, properly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent colour=Recipient |

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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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