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title: Why does the advice say to keep coughing when food goes down the wro… — Food, drinks and feeling ill · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does the advice say to keep coughing when food goes down the wrong way? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 81 «Food, drinks and feeling ill» of the everyday 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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# Test 3 · ★ · Food, drinks and feeling ill

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Why does the advice say to keep coughing when food goes down the wrong way?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** food · **What happens:** do, say, keep, cough, go down · **To what, where:** advice, wrong way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 81 «Food, drinks and feeling ill» of the everyday 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/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill:t3:1
# text = Why does the advice say to keep coughing when food goes down the wrong way?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
8	coughing	cough	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	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 | **do** | present |  | the advice |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cough** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go down** | present | food | the wrong way |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient way=Extent |

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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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Coughing makes the food smaller

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill:t3:o1:1
# text = Coughing makes the food smaller
1	Coughing	cough	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cough** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | the food |  |  |  | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Coughing is the body's own way of pushing food out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill:t3:o2:1
# text = Coughing is the body's own way of pushing food out
1	Coughing	coughing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Coughing | the body's own way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **push out** | gerund | the body's own way *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Coughing warms the throat so food melts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill:t3:o3:1
# text = Coughing warms the throat so food melts
1	Coughing	cough	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	warms	warm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cough** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **warm** | present |  | the throat |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent throat=Patient |
| 3 | **melt** | present | food |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Coughing calls the food back up to the mouth to be chewed again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill:t3:o4:1
# text = Coughing calls the food back up to the mouth to be chewed again
1	Coughing	cough	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RB	_	9	case	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	chewed	chew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cough** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | present |  | the food |  |  |  | up the mouth | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Recipient |
| 3 | **chew** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V» |

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