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title: how come food goes down even if u eat upside down lol — Digestion: from mouth to intestines · tree and pragmatics
description: how come food goes down even if u eat upside down lol Test 10 of lesson 33 «Digestion: from mouth to intestines» of the world 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 10 · Digestion: from mouth to intestines

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how come food goes down even if u eat upside down lol

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** come food, u · **What happens:** go down, eat down · **To what, where:** upside

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This is test 10 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/33-digestion/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t10:1
# text = how come food goes down even if u eat upside down lol
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	come	come	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | present | come food |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **eat down** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | u | upside |  |  |  | down *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Muscles in the food pipe squeeze it along

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t10:o1:1
# text = Muscles in the food pipe squeeze it along
1	Muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	along	along	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeeze** | present | Muscles in the food pipe | pipe |  |  |  | along *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The stomach sucks it down like a straw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t10:o2:1
# text = The stomach sucks it down like a straw
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sucks	suck	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suck down** | present | the stomach | it |  |  |  | like a straw | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Gravity still pulls it down to the stomach

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t10:o3:1
# text = Gravity still pulls it down to the stomach
1	Gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull down** | present | Gravity | it |  | the stomach | still |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to stomach=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Saliva makes it slide on its own

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t10:o4:1
# text = Saliva makes it slide on its own
1	Saliva	saliva	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	slide	slide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Saliva | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slide** | infinitive |  |  |  | Saliva's own |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory |

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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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