Test 7 · ★★ · Digestion: the journey of a sandwich

Why is the small intestine so long and folded?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, fold · To what, where: small intestine

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 intestine	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 intestine	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	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 intestine	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 folded	cc
9	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 long	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 intestine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the small intestine				long property	tree rules
2	fold	participle							vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

Long tubes make the food taste better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tubes	amod
2	tubes	tube	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 taste	det
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taste	compound
6	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Long tubes	the food taste				good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset taste=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A long, folded tube with villi gives a huge surface to soak up food

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tube	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tube	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct
4	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tube	amod
5	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gives	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 villi	case
7	villi	villi	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tube	nmod
8	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 surface	det
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 surface	amod
11	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gives	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 soak	mark
13	soak	soak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gives	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 soak	compound:prt
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 soak	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fold	participle			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	give	present	a long folded tube with villi	a huge surface	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surface=Theme
3	soak up	to-infinitive	a long folded tube with villi not said here	food	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It needs to be long enough to reach right down to the feet and back

The tree, 15 words

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	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 long	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 long	cop
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 needs	xcomp
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 reach	mark
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 long	advcl
9	right	right	ADV	_	10 down	advmod
10	down	down	ADV	_	8 reach	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 feet	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 feet	det
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 down	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 back	cc
15	back	back	ADV	_	10 down	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	need	present	It		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive		enough, long property	tree rules
3	reach	to-infinitive		down property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It stores spare food in its folds for the winter

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	2 stores	nsubj
2	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	spare	spare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stores	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 folds	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 folds	nmod:poss
7	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stores	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 winter	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 winter	det
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stores	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present	It	spare food		food's folds	winter		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in fold=Location

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