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title: If the large intestine did not work, what would the body lose? — Digestion: from mouth to intestines · tree and pragmatics
description: If the large intestine did not work, what would the body lose? Test 5 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.
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# Test 5 · Digestion: from mouth to intestines

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If the large intestine did not work, what would the body lose?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** large intestine, body · **What happens:** not work, lose

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t5:1
# text = If the large intestine did not work, what would the body lose?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	intestine	intestine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **work** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | the large intestine |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lose** | would | the body |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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 {#o1}

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All its saliva

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t5:o1:1
# text = All its saliva
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	saliva	saliva	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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All its oxygen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t5:o2:1
# text = All its oxygen
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	oxygen	oxygen	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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Its sense of taste

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t5:o3:1
# text = Its sense of taste
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sense** |  | Its *= it* | taste |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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

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A lot of water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t5:o4:1
# text = A lot of water
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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