Exam question 1 · Digestion: the journey of a sandwich

Identify the principal site of the absorption of digested food into the blood.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, digest, absorb · To what, where: principal site, blood, digested food

This is exam question 1 of lesson 67 «Digestion: the journey of a sandwich» of the biology 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 site	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 site	amod
4	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 absorption	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 absorption	det
7	absorption	absorption	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 site	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 food	case
9	digested	digest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 food	amod
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 absorption	nmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 blood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 blood	det
13	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal site of the absorption of digested food	the blood	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent site=Theme
2	digest	participle				tree rules
3	absorb			digested food		nom absorption «process transitive»: of=patient

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

The large intestine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 intestine	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 intestine	amod
3	intestine	intestine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The oesophagus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 oesophagus	det
2	oesophagus	oesophagus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mouth	det
2	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

The small intestine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 intestine	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 intestine	amod
3	intestine	intestine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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