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Test 2 · Digestion: from mouth to intestines

Hold a piece of bread in your mouth for a long time and it starts to taste a little sweet. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, piece · What happens: hold, start, taste · To what, where: piece, mouth, little sweet

This is test 2 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: Hold a piece of bread in your mouth for a long time and it starts to taste a little sweet.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 piece	det
3	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 bread	case
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 piece	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouth	nmod:poss
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 starts	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 starts	nsubj
15	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 taste	mark
17	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 starts	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sweet	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sweet	amod
20	sweet	sweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taste	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	a piece of bread		your mouth	time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in mouth=Location
2	start	present	piece						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	taste	to-infinitive	piece not said here	a little sweet					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme sweet=Attribute

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The teeth squeeze sugar out of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teeth	det
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 squeeze	nsubj
3	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 squeeze	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 it	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 squeeze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	present	the teeth	sugar		sugar			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme out it=Trajectory

Option 2

The tongue adds sugar to it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tongue	det
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 adds	nsubj
3	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 adds	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 adds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	the tongue	sugar	sugar				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient to it=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Saliva breaks starch into sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saliva	saliva	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breaks	compound
2	breaks	break	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 starch	nsubj
3	starch	starch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 sugar	case
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 starch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starch	present	Saliva breaks					into sugar result	vn coloring-24 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into sugar=Result

Option 4

The bread goes stale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bread	det
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the bread					stale property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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