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title: A doctor taps just below your knee and your leg kicks up by itself.… — The brain, nerves and the five senses · tree and pragmatics
description: A doctor taps just below your knee and your leg kicks up by itself. What is this? Test 5 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 5 · ★ · The brain, nerves and the five senses

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A doctor taps just below your knee and your leg kicks up by itself. What is this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** doctor, leg, this · **What happens:** tap, kick up, be · **To what, where:** knee

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 34 «The brain, nerves and the five senses» of the world 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/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A doctor taps just below your knee and your leg kicks up by itself.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:t5:1
# text = A doctor taps just below your knee and your leg kicks up by itself.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	taps	tap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	below	below	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	kicks	kick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tap** | present | a doctor | your knee |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent knee=Location |
| 2 | **kick up** | present | your leg |  |  |  |  | by leg | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is this?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:t5:2
# text = What is this?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A reflex

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:t5:o1:1
# text = A reflex
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reflex	reflex	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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A habit learned at school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:t5:o2:1
# text = A habit learned at school
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | participle |  | a habit *not said here* |  | school |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A dream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:t5:o3:1
# text = A dream
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A thought

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:t5:o4:1
# text = A thought
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thought	thought	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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