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Test 1 · Digestion: from mouth to intestines

An astronaut eats in space where there is almost no up or down. Can the food still reach the stomach?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: astronaut, food · What happens: eat, no up, reach · To what, where: space, stomach

This is test 1 of lesson 33 «Digestion: from mouth to intestines» of the world 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

Sentence 1: An astronaut eats in space where there is almost no up or down.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 astronaut	det
2	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eats	nsubj
3	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 space	case
5	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eats	obl
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 no	advmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 no	expl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 no	aux:pass
9	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 no	advmod
10	no	no	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 space	acl:relcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 no	compound:prt
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 down	cc
13	down	down	ADV	_	11 up	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	a astronaut			space			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	no up	present · passive				there		almost property	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.

Sentence 2: Can the food still reach the stomach?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 reach	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 food	det
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 reach	advmod
5	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stomach	det
7	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	can	the food	the stomach			still		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stomach=Theme

The options

Option 1

No, food needs gravity to fall down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 needs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 needs	punct
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	nsubj
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fall	mark
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 needs	advcl
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 fall	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	food	gravity					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gravity=Theme
2	fall down	to-infinitive	food not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Yes, muscles in the food pipe squeeze it along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 squeeze	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 squeeze	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 pipe	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pipe	det
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pipe	compound
7	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 muscles	nmod
8	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 squeeze	obj
10	along	along	ADV	_	8 squeeze	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	present	muscles in the food pipe	pipe				along property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Only if the food is liquid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 liquid	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 liquid	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 liquid	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 liquid	cop
6	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the food					liquid property	tree rules

Option 4

Only if the astronaut stands up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 stands	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 stands	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 astronaut	det
4	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stands	nsubj
5	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 stands	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	present	the astronaut						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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