Test 6 · ★ · Lungs, air and keeping fit

Why does a person with asthma find it hard to blow out candles?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: person · What happens: do, find, blow out · To what, where: person, candles

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 93 «Lungs, air and keeping fit» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 find	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 person	det
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 asthma	case
6	asthma	asthma	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obl
7	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 find	obj
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 find	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 blow	mark
11	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hard	xcomp
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 blow	compound:prt
13	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 blow	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present		a person		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Eventuality
2	find	present		person	with asthma; hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	blow out	to-infinitive	person not said here	candles		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent candle=Patient

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

Their lungs make far too much oxygen to blow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 lungs	nmod:poss
2	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 much	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 oxygen	amod
7	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 blow	mark
9	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Their lungs	much oxygen					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oxygen=Product
2	blow	to-infinitive	Their lungs not said here						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Narrow airways let less air in and out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 airways	amod
2	airways	airway	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 air	amod
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obj
6	in	in	ADV	_	3 let	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 out	cc
8	out	out	ADV	_	6 in	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	Narrow airways	less air					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme

Option 3

Candles need lots of carbon dioxide to burn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 dioxide	case
5	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dioxide	compound
6	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lots	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 burn	mark
8	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Candles	lots of carbon dioxide					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme
2	burn	to-infinitive	Candles not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Their diaphragm is much too strong to control

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 diaphragm	nmod:poss
2	diaphragm	diaphragm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strong	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 control	mark
8	control	control	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 strong	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Their diaphragm					strong property	tree rules
2	control	to-infinitive	Their diaphragm not said here						vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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