--- title: A blindfolded girl knows her mum is baking a cake. Which sense tells… — The brain, nerves and the five senses · tree and pragmatics description: A blindfolded girl knows her mum is baking a cake. Which sense tells her? Test 8 · ★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [The brain, nerves and the five senses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · The brain, nerves and the five senses A blindfolded girl knows her mum is baking a cake. Which sense tells her? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** blindfolded girl, mum, sense · **What happens:** blindfold, know, bake, tell · **To what, where:** cake, mum · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A blindfolded girl knows her mum is baking a cake. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:t8:1 # text = A blindfolded girl knows her mum is baking a cake. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 blindfolded blindfold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 baking bake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blindfold** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **know** | present | a blindfolded girl | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **bake** | present · progressive | girl's mum | a cake | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which sense tells her? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:t8:2 # text = Which sense tells her? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | which sense | | mum | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Smell ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:t8:o1:1 # text = Smell 1 Smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Touch ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:t8:o2:1 # text = Touch 1 Touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Taste only ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:t8:o3:1 # text = Taste only 1 Taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 only only ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Sight ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:34-brain-nerves-senses:t8:o4:1 # text = Sight 1 Sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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