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title: Count them: a balloon needs 3 normal breaths of half a litre each. H… — The human body deeper: lungs, stomach… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: a balloon needs 3 normal breaths of half a litre each. How much air is that? Test 4 of lesson 262 «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 4 · The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts

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Count them: a balloon needs 3 normal breaths of half a litre each. How much air is that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, balloon, much air · **What happens:** count, need, be · **To what, where:** them, 3 normal breaths

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This is test 4 of lesson 262 «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a balloon needs 3 normal breaths of half a litre each.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts:t4:1
# text = Count them: a balloon needs 3 normal breaths of half a litre each.
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	breaths	breath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	litre	litre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | a balloon | 3 normal breaths of half litre  each |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot breath=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How much air is that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts:t4:2
# text = How much air is that?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | much air |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Six litres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts:t4:o1:1
# text = Six litres
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	litres	litre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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One and a half litres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts:t4:o2:1
# text = One and a half litres
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	compound	_	_
5	litres	litre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Three litres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts:t4:o3:1
# text = Three litres
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	litres	litre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Half a litre

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts:t4:o4:1
# text = Half a litre
1	Half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	litre	litre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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