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title: What would happen if you held your nose while eating a strawberry sw… — Senses: nose, tongue and skin · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you held your nose while eating a strawberry sweet? Test 3 of lesson 70 «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» 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 3 · Senses: nose, tongue and skin

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What would happen if you held your nose while eating a strawberry sweet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, hold, eat · **To what, where:** nose, strawberry sweet

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This is test 3 of lesson 70 «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» 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/70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin:t3:1
# text = What would happen if you held your nose while eating a strawberry sweet?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sweet	sweet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | your nose |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | you *not said here* | a strawberry sweet |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It would taste far less of strawberry, mostly just sweet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin:t3:o1:1
# text = It would taste far less of strawberry, mostly just sweet
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would taste twice as strong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin:t3:o2:1
# text = It would taste twice as strong
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | would | It |  |  |  |  | strong, twice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would taste salty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin:t3:o3:1
# text = It would taste salty
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | would | It |  |  |  |  | salty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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It would taste of nothing at all, not even a little bit sweet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin:t3:o4:1
# text = It would taste of nothing at all, not even a little bit sweet
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | would | It | a little bit |  | all |  | of nothing | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location |

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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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