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title: Why might it be dangerous if your muscles worked during a dream? — Sleep and dreams in people · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might it be dangerous if your muscles worked during a dream? Test 4 of lesson 363 «Sleep and dreams in people» 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 right.
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# Test 4 · Sleep and dreams in people

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Why might it be dangerous if your muscles worked during a dream?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** it, muscles · **What happens:** be, work

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This is test 4 of lesson 363 «Sleep and dreams in people» 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/363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people:t4:1
# text = Why might it be dangerous if your muscles worked during a dream?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	during	during	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | might | it |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | past | your muscles |  |  |  | during a dream |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 grow too fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people:t4:o1:1
# text = You would grow too fast
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | You |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Your dreams would stop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people:t4:o2:1
# text = Your dreams would stop
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | Your dreams |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **dream** |  | Your |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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You could act out the dream and hurt yourself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people:t4:o3:1
# text = You could act out the dream and hurt yourself
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act out** | could | You | the dream |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent dream=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hurt** | infinitive | You *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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You would sleep far too deeply and might never wake up again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people:t4:o4:1
# text = You would sleep far too deeply and might never wake up again
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | would | You |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **wake up** | might | You *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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