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title: Why would burping be harder for an astronaut in space? — The human body deeper: lungs, stomach… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would burping be harder for an astronaut in space? Test 7 of lesson 262 «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts

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Why would burping be harder for an astronaut in space?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** burp, be

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This is test 7 of lesson 262 «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts:t7:1
# text = Why would burping be harder for an astronaut in space?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	burping	burp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burp** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | for a astronaut in space; hard *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Astronauts have no stomachs in space

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts:t7:o1:1
# text = Astronauts have no stomachs in space
1	Astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Astronauts | no stomachs |  | space |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Without gravity, gas and food in the stomach do not separate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts:t7:o2:1
# text = Without gravity, gas and food in the stomach do not separate
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	separate	separate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **separate** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | without gravity in the stomach and gas and food | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Space has no air for them to burp into

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts:t7:o3:1
# text = Space has no air for them to burp into
1	Space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	burp	burp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Space | no air |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 2 | **burp** | to-infinitive | them *= they* | no air *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fizzy drinks freeze solid in space as soon as they are opened

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts:t7:o4:1
# text = Fizzy drinks freeze solid in space as soon as they are opened
1	Fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	freeze	freeze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | present | Fizzy drinks |  |  | space |  | solid, soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **open** | present · passive |  | drinks *= drink* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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**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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