Test 9 · The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts

Why is the small intestine so long and bumpy inside?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: small intestine · What happens: be

This is test 9 of lesson 262 «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 long	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 long	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 intestine	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 intestine	amod
5	intestine	intestine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 long	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bumpy	cc
9	bumpy	bumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 long	conj
10	inside	inside	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the small intestine					inside, long property	tree rules
2	be		the small intestine not said here						tree rules

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

Option 1

To keep the stomach warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stomach	det
4	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the stomach				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Theme

Option 2

Because it grew far too fast in childhood and got tangled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 grew	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 fast	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grew	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 childhood	case
8	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
11	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	it	childhood	fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in childhood=Location
2	get	past				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	tangle	participle				tree rules

Option 3

To store food for the winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 store	mark
2	store	store	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 store	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 winter	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 winter	det
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 store	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	to-infinitive		food			winter		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To give a huge surface for soaking up food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 surface	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 surface	amod
5	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 soaking	mark
7	soaking	soak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 give	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 soaking	compound:prt
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soaking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive		a huge surface					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surface=Theme
2	soak up	gerund		food					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme

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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