Test 7 · ★ · Lungs, air and keeping fit

If someone never exercises, what usually happens to their heart and muscles?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone · What happens: not exercise, happen

This is test 7 · ★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 exercises	mark
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 exercises	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 exercises	advmod
4	exercises	exercise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 happens	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 exercises	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happens	nsubj
7	usually	usually	ADV	_	8 happens	advmod
8	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 heart	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 heart	nmod:poss
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happens	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 muscles	cc
13	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heart	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not exercise a condition, not said to happen	present	someone						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	happen	present						to their heart and muscles; usually property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

They become stronger anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 become	nsubj
2	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 become	xcomp
4	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	2 become	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	They					anyway, strong property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They become weaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 become	nsubj
2	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	They					weak property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They stop using oxygen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
4	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	They						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	use	gerund	They not said here	oxygen					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient

Option 4

They grow bigger with rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 grow	xcomp
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 rest	case
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	They					with rest; big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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