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title: Which part of digestion happens before swallowing? — Digestion: from mouth to intestines · tree and pragmatics
description: Which part of digestion happens before swallowing? Test 6 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 6 · Digestion: from mouth to intestines

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Which part of digestion happens before swallowing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** part · **What happens:** happen, swallow

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t6:1
# text = Which part of digestion happens before swallowing?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	digestion	digestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	swallowing	swallow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | which part of digestion |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **swallow** | gerund | which part of digestion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Taking back water from waste in the gut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t6:o1:1
# text = Taking back water from waste in the gut
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take back** | gerund |  | water |  | waste |  | in the gut | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from waste=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Chewing and wetting food with saliva

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t6:o2:1
# text = Chewing and wetting food with saliva
1	Chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wetting	wet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	saliva	saliva	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chew** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wet** | gerund |  | food |  |  |  | with saliva | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent food=Patient with saliva=Instrument |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Churning the food with acid and juices

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t6:o3:1
# text = Churning the food with acid and juices
1	Churning	churn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	juices	juice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **churn** | gerund |  | the food |  |  |  | with acid and juices | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Passing the food into the blood vessels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:33-digestion:t6:o4:1
# text = Passing the food into the blood vessels
1	Passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund |  | the food |  | the blood vessels |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent food=Theme into vessel=Destination |

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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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