Test 3 · ★ · Feelings and calming down

Why do your heart and breathing speed up when you are scared?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: do, speed up, be · To what, where: heart

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 53 «Feelings and calming down» of the everyday 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	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 speed	advcl
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heart	nmod:poss
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 do	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 breathing	cc
6	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heart	conj
7	speed	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 speed	compound:prt
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 scared	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 scared	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 scared	cop
12	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 speed	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 speed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present		your heart and breathing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality
2	speed up	present				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	you		scared property	tree rules

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

Your body is getting ready to run or protect itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 body	nmod:poss
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 getting	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 getting	aux
4	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 getting	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 run	mark
7	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ready	xcomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 protect	cc
9	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 run	conj
10	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	Your body		ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	run	to-infinitive	Your body not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	protect	infinitive	Your body not said here	body		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary

Option 2

Your body is cooling itself down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 body	nmod:poss
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cooling	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cooling	aux
4	cooling	cool	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 cooling	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 cooling	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool down	present · progressive	Your body	body					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient

Option 3

Your heart is tired out from doing too much work all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 heart	nmod:poss
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tired	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 doing	mark
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tired	advcl
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 work	amod
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your heart					out, tired property	tree rules
2	do	gerund	Your heart not said here	much work			day		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

Option 4

Your body is trying to fall asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 body	nmod:poss
2	body	body	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 fall	mark
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp
7	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fall	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	Your body						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fall not said to happen	to-infinitive	Your body not said here					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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