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description: What would happen if the lungs had just one big air bag instead of millions of tiny sacs? Test 5 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 wa
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# Test 5 · The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts

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What would happen if the lungs had just one big air bag instead of millions of tiny sacs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lungs · **What happens:** happen, have · **To what, where:** one big air bag

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts:t5:1
# text = What would happen if the lungs had just one big air bag instead of millions of tiny sacs?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sacs	sac	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the lungs | one big air bag |  |  |  | instead millions of tiny sacs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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You would be able to hold your breath for hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts:t5:o1:1
# text = You would be able to hold your breath for hours
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | You |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | your breath |  |  | hour |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing would change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts:t5:o2:1
# text = Nothing would change
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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There would be far less surface for oxygen to pass into the blood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts:t5:o3:1
# text = There would be far less surface for oxygen to pass into the blood
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | would | less surface |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | oxygen |  |  | the blood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into blood=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Breathing would be much easier, with more room for air in the chest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:262-human-body-deeper-lungs-stomach-and-guts:t5:o4:1
# text = Breathing would be much easier, with more room for air in the chest
1	Breathing	breathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Breathing |  |  |  |  | with more room for air in the chest; easy *property* | tree rules |

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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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