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title: At lunch a friend says what you eat today is all gone by tea time. R… — Digestion: the journey of a sandwich · tree and pragmatics
description: At lunch a friend says what you eat today is all gone by tea time. Right? Test 9 · ★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Digestion: the journey of a sandwich

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At lunch a friend says what you eat today is all gone by tea time. Right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friend, you · **What happens:** say, eat, be · **To what, where:** lunch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 67 «Digestion: the journey of a sandwich» 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/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* At lunch a friend says what you eat today is all gone by tea time.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich:t9:1
# text = At lunch a friend says what you eat today is all gone by tea time.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a friend |  |  | lunch |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | a friend *not said here* |  |  |  | time; today | all, go *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.

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*Sentence 2:* Right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich:t9:2
# text = Right?
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, by tea time it has all turned into breath and gone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich:t9:o1:1
# text = Yes, by tea time it has all turned into breath and gone
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present · perfect · passive |  | it |  | breath | time | all *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into breath=Trajectory |
| 2 | **go** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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No, food stays inside you for a whole month or more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich:t9:o2:1
# text = No, food stays inside you for a whole month or more
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | food |  |  |  | month | inside you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside you=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, food is used up completely in about two hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich:t9:o3:1
# text = Yes, food is used up completely in about two hours
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use up** | present · passive |  | food |  |  | hour | completely *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, a meal usually takes about one to three days to go through

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich:t9:o4:1
# text = No, a meal usually takes about one to three days to go through
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	through	through	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | a meal |  |  |  | day | usually *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go through** | to-infinitive | a meal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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