Test 11 · Digestion: from mouth to intestines

my bro says digestion starts in the stomach. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro, digestion · What happens: say, start · To what, where: stomach · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bro	nmod:poss
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	digestion	digestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starts	nsubj
5	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 stomach	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stomach	det
8	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starts	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my bro						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	start	present	digestion			the stomach			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

No, it starts in the mouth with chewing and saliva

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 starts	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 starts	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 starts	nsubj
4	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mouth	det
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starts	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 chewing	case
9	chewing	chewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starts	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saliva	cc
11	saliva	saliva	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chewing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	it			the mouth		with chewing and saliva	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with chewing=Subeventuality

Option 2

No, it starts in the small intestine after the stomach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 starts	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 starts	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 starts	nsubj
4	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 intestine	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 intestine	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 intestine	amod
8	intestine	intestine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starts	obl
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 stomach	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stomach	det
11	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	it			the small intestine	after the stomach		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Yes, the mouth only tastes the food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 tastes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouth	det
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tastes	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 tastes	advmod
6	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 food	det
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tastes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	the mouth	the food					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme food=Attribute

Option 4

Yes, nothing happens until the stomach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 happens	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 happens	nsubj
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	until	until	ADP	_	7 stomach	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stomach	det
7	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	nothing				until the stomach		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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