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title: Identify the principal site of the absorption of digested food into… — Digestion: the journey of a sandwich · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal site of the absorption of digested food into the blood. Exam question 1 of lesson 67 «Digestion: the journey of a sandwich» 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 right.
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# Exam question 1 · Digestion: the journey of a sandwich

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Identify the principal site of the absorption of digested food into the blood.

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, digest, absorb · **To what, where:** principal site, blood, digested food

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 67 «Digestion: the journey of a sandwich» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal site of the absorption of digested food into the blood.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	absorption	absorption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	digested	digest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal site of the absorption of digested food |  | the blood |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent site=Theme |
| 2 | **digest** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **absorb** |  |  | digested food |  |  |  |  | nom absorption «process transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#o1}

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The large intestine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich:e1:o1:1
# text = The large intestine
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	intestine	intestine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The oesophagus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich:e1:o2:1
# text = The oesophagus
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oesophagus	oesophagus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The mouth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich:e1:o3:1
# text = The mouth
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The small intestine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich:e1:o4:1
# text = The small intestine
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	intestine	intestine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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