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title: «sweat's just your body leaking, it's useless» What is the truth? — Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freck… · tree and pragmatics
description: «sweat's just your body leaking, it's useless» What is the truth? Test 2 of lesson 353 «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn» 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 wrong.
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# Test 2 · Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn

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«sweat's just your body leaking, it's useless» What is the truth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sweat, body · **What happens:** be, leak · **To what, where:** body, truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 of lesson 353 «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn» 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/353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn:t2:1
# text = «sweat's just your body leaking, it's useless» What is the truth?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	leaking	leak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | sweat | your body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leak** *in a quote* | gerund | your body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | sweat |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | the truth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Sweat is only there to make you smell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn:t2:o1:1
# text = Sweat is only there to make you smell
1	Sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Sweat |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Sweat *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **smell** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sweat makes you hotter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn:t2:o2:1
# text = Sweat makes you hotter
1	Sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Sweat | you |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Sweat cools you as it dries off the skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn:t2:o3:1
# text = Sweat cools you as it dries off the skin
1	Sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dries	dry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cool** | present | Sweat | you |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 2 | **dry off** | present | Sweat | the skin |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient skin=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sweat cleans out all the dirt from the blood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn:t2:o4:1
# text = Sweat cleans out all the dirt from the blood
1	Sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cleans	clean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean out** | present | Sweat | all dirt |  | the blood |  |  | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme from blood=Source |

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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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