Test 3 · ★★ · Digestion: the journey of a sandwich

What would happen if you did not chew a sandwich at all?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, not chew · To what, where: sandwich, all

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 67 «Digestion: the journey of a sandwich» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 chew	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 chew	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 chew	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 chew	advmod
8	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sandwich	det
10	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chew	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 chew	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not chew a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	you	a sandwich		all			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandwich=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 right answer

It would be harder to swallow and slower to digest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 harder	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 harder	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 harder	cop
4	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 swallow	mark
6	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 harder	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slower	cc
8	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 harder	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 digest	mark
10	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 slower	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	would	It	hard property	tree rules
2	swallow	to-infinitive			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be				tree rules
4	digest	to-infinitive			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would go straight into the blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 blood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blood	det
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	It			the blood		straight property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into blood=Initial_Location

Option 3

It would digest faster because it is still in one piece

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 digest	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 digest	aux
3	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 digest	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 piece	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 piece	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 piece	cop
8	still	still	ADV	_	11 piece	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 piece	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 piece	nummod
11	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 digest	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	digest	would	It					fast property	tree rules
2	is	present	it			one piece	still		tree rules

Option 4

It would never reach the stomach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reach	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reach	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 reach	advmod
4	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stomach	det
6	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	would	It	the stomach					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stomach=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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