Test 3 · ★ · Food, drinks and feeling ill

Why does the advice say to keep coughing when food goes down the wrong way?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: food · What happens: do, say, keep, cough, go down · To what, where: advice, wrong way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 81 «Food, drinks and feeling ill» of the everyday 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	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 advice	det
4	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
8	coughing	cough	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 goes	mark
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 goes	nsubj
11	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 coughing	advcl
12	down	down	ADP	_	15 way	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 goes	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present		the advice	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep	to-infinitive			tree rules
4	cough	gerund			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go down	present	food	the wrong way	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient way=Extent

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

Coughing makes the food smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coughing	cough	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cough	gerund							vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present		the food				small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Coughing is the body's own way of pushing food out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coughing	coughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 body	det
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 way	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 body	case
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 pushing	mark
9	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 way	acl
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pushing	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	9 pushing	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Coughing	the body's own way					tree rules
2	push out	gerund	the body's own way not said here	food					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 3

Coughing warms the throat so food melts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coughing	cough	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 warms	nsubj
2	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 throat	det
4	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warms	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 melts	advmod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 melts	nsubj
7	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 warms	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cough	gerund			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	warm	present		the throat	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent throat=Patient
3	melt	present	food		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Coughing calls the food back up to the mouth to be chewed again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coughing	cough	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 calls	nsubj
2	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mouth	det
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	12 chewed	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 chewed	aux:pass
12	chewed	chew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 calls	advcl
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 chewed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cough	gerund				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	present	the food		up the mouth	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Recipient
3	chew	to-infinitive · passive		again		vn chew-39.2 «NP V»

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