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title: Identify the sense from which the greater part of the flavour of foo… — The brain, nerves and the five senses · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the sense from which the greater part of the flavour of food derives. Exam question 3 of lesson 34 «The brain, nerves and the five senses» of the world 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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# Exam question 3 · The brain, nerves and the five senses

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Identify the sense from which the greater part of the flavour of food derives.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, greater part · **What happens:** identify, derive, flavour · **To what, where:** sense, food

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 34 «The brain, nerves and the five senses» of the world 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/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:e3:1
# text = Identify the sense from which the greater part of the flavour of food derives.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	flavour	flavour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	derives	derive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 sense |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent sense=Theme |
| 2 | **derive** | present | the greater part of the flavour of food |  |  | the sense |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from which=Material |
| 3 | **flavour** |  |  | food |  |  |  |  | nom flavour «state transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Sight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:e3:o1:1
# text = Sight
1	Sight	sight	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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Touch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:e3:o2:1
# text = Touch
1	Touch	touch	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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Taste

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:e3:o3:1
# text = Taste
1	Taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Smell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:e3:o4:1
# text = Smell
1	Smell	smell	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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