Test 5 · Digestion: from mouth to intestines

If the large intestine did not work, what would the body lose?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: large intestine, body · What happens: not work, lose

This is test 5 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 work	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 intestine	det
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 intestine	amod
4	intestine	intestine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 work	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 work	advmod
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 lose	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 work	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 lose	obj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 lose	aux
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 body	det
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lose	nsubj
13	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	the large intestine						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lose	would	the body						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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

All its saliva

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 saliva	det:predet
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 saliva	nmod:poss
3	saliva	saliva	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

All its oxygen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 oxygen	det:predet
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 oxygen	nmod:poss
3	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Its sense of taste

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sense	nmod:poss
2	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 taste	case
4	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sense	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense		Its = it	taste					nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A lot of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lot	det
2	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lot	nmod

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

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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