Test 10 · Digestion: from mouth to intestines

how come food goes down even if u eat upside down lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: come food, u · What happens: go down, eat down · To what, where: upside

This is test 10 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 come	advmod
2	come	come	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 food	amod
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 goes	advmod
6	even	even	ADV	_	9 eat	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 eat	mark
8	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 eat	nsubj
9	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 goes	advcl
10	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	obj
11	down	down	ADV	_	9 eat	advmod
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 goes	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	present	come food					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	eat down a condition, not said to happen	present	u	upside				down property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Muscles in the food pipe squeeze it along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

The stomach sucks it down like a straw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stomach	det
2	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sucks	nsubj
3	sucks	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sucks	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 sucks	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 straw	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 straw	det
8	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sucks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck down	present	the stomach	it				like a straw	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Gravity still pulls it down to the stomach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 pulls	advmod
3	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pulls	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 pulls	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 stomach	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stomach	det
8	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull down	present	Gravity	it		the stomach	still		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to stomach=Destination

Option 4

Saliva makes it slide on its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saliva	saliva	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Saliva	it					tree rules
2	slide	infinitive				Saliva's own			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory

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