Test 7 · Digestion: from mouth to intestines

Why must food be broken into tiny pieces before the body can use it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: body · What happens: break, use · To what, where: food, tiny pieces

This is test 7 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 broken	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broken	nsubj:pass
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 broken	aux:pass
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 pieces	case
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pieces	amod
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 broken	obl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 use	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 body	det
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 use	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 use	aux
13	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 broken	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 use	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 broken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	must · passive		food				into tiny pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into piece=Result
2	use	can	the body	food					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

Only tiny pieces can pass into the blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 pieces	advmod
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pieces	amod
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pass	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pass	aux
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 blood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 blood	det
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pass	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	can	tiny pieces			the blood			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into blood=Initial_Location

Option 2

Tiny pieces taste better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pieces	amod
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taste	nsubj
3	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 taste	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	Tiny pieces					well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Big pieces make the heart stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pieces	amod
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stop	det
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	compound
6	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Big pieces	the heart stop					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stop=Product

Option 4

Big pieces are too heavy to swallow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pieces	amod
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heavy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 swallow	mark
7	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heavy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Big pieces					heavy property	tree rules
2	swallow	to-infinitive	Big pieces not said here						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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