Test 11 · ★ · The heart and blood

Why does your heart beat faster when you get a fright, even standing still?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: beat, get, stand · To what, where: fright

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 65 «The heart and blood» of the biology 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 beat	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 beat	aux
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heart	nmod:poss
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 standing	advcl
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 beat	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 get	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 beat	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fright	det
11	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beat	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 standing	advmod
14	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	still	still	ADV	_	14 standing	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 standing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present · do-support				fast property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	present	you	a fright			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fright=Stimulus
3	stand	gerund			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The body gets ready to run, so the heart sends more blood to muscles

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 body	det
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gets	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 run	mark
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ready	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sends	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 sends	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heart	det
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sends	nsubj
11	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	conj
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 blood	amod
13	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sends	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 muscles	case
15	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	present	the body			ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	run	to-infinitive	the body not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	send	present	the heart	more blood	muscles		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme to muscle=Destination

Option 2

The heart is trying to escape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heart	det
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trying	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 escape	mark
6	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	the heart						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	escape not said to happen	to-infinitive	the heart not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Fear makes the blood boil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boil	det
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boil	compound
5	boil	boil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Fear	the blood boil					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boil=Product

Option 4

Fright makes the blood turn blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 blood	det
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Fright	the blood				blue property	tree rules
2	turn	present	the blood not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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