Test 12 · Digestion: from mouth to intestines

Sam reckons fibre is useless cos we can't digest it. right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sam, fibre, we · What happens: reckon, be, not digest · To what, where: fibre

This is test 12 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	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fibre	fibre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 useless	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 useless	cop
5	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reckons	ccomp
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	10 digest	mark
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 digest	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 digest	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 digest	advmod
10	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 useless	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 digest	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 useless	punct
13	right	right	ADV	_	2 reckons	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Sam		right property	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	fibre		useless property	tree rules
3	not digest	can	we	fibre		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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, fibre only makes food heavier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 fibre	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	fibre	fibre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 makes	advmod
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
7	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 makes	xcomp

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

Option 2

No, fibre gives us most of our energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 fibre	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	fibre	fibre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	nsubj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 gives	iobj
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 gives	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 energy	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 energy	nmod:poss
9	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	fibre	most of our energy	us				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient most=Theme

Option 3

Yes, fibre does nothing in the body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 does	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	fibre	fibre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 does	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 body	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 body	det
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	fibre	nothing		the body			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, fibre helps food move through the intestines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 fibre	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	fibre	fibre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helps	nsubj
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 move	compound
6	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 helps	xcomp
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 intestines	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 intestines	det
9	intestines	intestine	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	fibre						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	move	infinitive	fibre not said here			the intestines			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through intestine=Trajectory

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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