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title: Why can a bird eat a chilli pepper that would make a person cry? — Senses: nose, tongue and skin · tree and pragmatics
description: Why can a bird eat a chilli pepper that would make a person cry? Test 5 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 right.
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# Test 5 · Senses: nose, tongue and skin

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Why can a bird eat a chilli pepper that would make a person cry?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bird, chilli pepper, person · **What happens:** eat, make, cry · **To what, where:** chilli pepper, person

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin:t5:1
# text = Why can a bird eat a chilli pepper that would make a person cry?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	chilli	chilli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | can | a bird | a chilli pepper |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pepper=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | would | a chilli pepper | a person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | a person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Birds swallow it so fast it cannot burn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin:t5:o1:1
# text = Birds swallow it so fast it cannot burn
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swallow	swallow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | present | Birds | it |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **burn** | can | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Birds do not feel capsaicin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin:t5:o2:1
# text = Birds do not feel capsaicin
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	capsaicin	capsaicin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **feel** | present · do-support | Birds | capsaicin |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capsaicin=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Birds have fireproof stomachs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin:t5:o3:1
# text = Birds have fireproof stomachs
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fireproof	fireproof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Birds | fireproof stomachs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Birds have no tongues at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:70-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin:t5:o4:1
# text = Birds have no tongues at all
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Birds | no tongues |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=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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