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Test 1 · ★ · The heart, blood and breathing

A boy holds his breath. Why can he not do it for long?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: hold, not do · To what, where: breath

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 32 «The heart, blood and breathing» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: A boy holds his breath.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	nsubj
3	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 breath	nmod:poss
5	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 holds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	a boy	boy's breath					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme

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 can he not do it for long?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 do	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 do	advmod
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 long	case
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 do	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	can	boy	breath					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

His blood would run out of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 blood	nmod:poss
2	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	His blood			water			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out water=Trajectory

Option 2

His heart would stop beating at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 heart	nmod:poss
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 beating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	His heart						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	beat	gerund	His heart not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His cells need a steady supply of oxygen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cells	nmod:poss
2	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 supply	det
5	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 supply	amod
6	supply	supply	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 oxygen	case
8	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 supply	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	His cells	a steady supply of oxygen					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot supply=Theme

Option 4

His lungs would burst at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 lungs	nmod:poss
2	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burst	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 burst	aux
4	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 burst	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	would	His lungs						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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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