Test 6 · Digestion: from mouth to intestines

Which part of digestion happens before swallowing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: part · What happens: happen, swallow

This is test 6 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 part	det
2	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happens	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 digestion	case
4	digestion	digestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 part	nmod
5	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 swallowing	mark
7	swallowing	swallow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 happens	advcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	which part of digestion						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	swallow	gerund	which part of digestion not said here						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Taking back water from waste in the gut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Taking	advmod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 waste	case
5	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 gut	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gut	det
8	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take back	gerund		water		waste		in the gut	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from waste=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Chewing and wetting food with saliva

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wetting	cc
3	wetting	wet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Chewing	conj
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wetting	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 saliva	case
6	saliva	saliva	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wetting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	gerund							vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wet	gerund		food				with saliva	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent food=Patient with saliva=Instrument

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Churning the food with acid and juices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Churning	churn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 food	det
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Churning	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 acid	case
5	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Churning	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 juices	cc
7	juices	juice	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 acid	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	churn	gerund		the food				with acid and juices	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Product

Option 4

Passing the food into the blood vessels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 food	det
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Passing	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 vessels	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vessels	det
6	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vessels	compound
7	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Passing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund		the food		the blood vessels			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent food=Theme into vessel=Destination

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