--- title: Hold a piece of bread in your mouth for a long time and it starts to… — Digestion: from mouth to intestines · tree and pragmatics description: Hold a piece of bread in your mouth for a long time and it starts to taste a little sweet. Why? Test 2 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/33-digestion/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Digestion: from mouth to intestines](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/33-digestion/) / t2 # Test 2 · Digestion: from mouth to intestines Hold a piece of bread in your mouth for a long time and it starts to taste a little sweet. Why? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, piece · **What happens:** hold, start, taste · **To what, where:** piece, mouth, little sweet This is test 2 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/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Hold a piece of bread in your mouth for a long time and it starts to taste a little sweet. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t2:1 # text = Hold a piece of bread in your mouth for a long time and it starts to taste a little sweet. 1 Hold hold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 sweet sweet NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | a piece of bread | | your mouth | time | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in mouth=Location | | 2 | **start** | present | piece | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **taste** | to-infinitive | piece *not said here* | a little sweet | | | | | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme sweet=Attribute | 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. *Sentence 2:* Why? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t2:2 # text = Why? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The teeth squeeze sugar out of it ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t2:o1:1 # text = The teeth squeeze sugar out of it 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 squeeze squeeze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 out out ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squeeze** | present | the teeth | sugar | | sugar | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme out it=Trajectory | ### Option 2 {#o2} The tongue adds sugar to it ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t2:o2:1 # text = The tongue adds sugar to it 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | the tongue | sugar | sugar | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient to it=Co-Patient | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Saliva breaks starch into sugar ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t2:o3:1 # text = Saliva breaks starch into sugar 1 Saliva saliva NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 breaks break NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 starch starch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **starch** | present | Saliva breaks | | | | | into sugar *result* | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into sugar=Result | ### Option 4 {#o4} The bread goes stale ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t2:o4:1 # text = The bread goes stale 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 stale stale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | the bread | | | | | stale *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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