--- title: Why does a giraffe not faint when it lifts its head after drinking? — The heart and blood · tree and pragmatics description: Why does a giraffe not faint when it lifts its head after drinking? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 65 «The heart and blood» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [The heart and blood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · The heart and blood Why does a giraffe not faint when it lifts its head after drinking? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** giraffe · **What happens:** lift, drink · **To what, where:** head This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 65 «The heart and blood» 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/65-the-heart-and-blood/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:65-the-heart-and-blood:t8:1 # text = Why does a giraffe not faint when it lifts its head after drinking? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 faint faint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lifts lift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 after after SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | present | giraffe | giraffe's head | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 2 | **drink** | present · do-support | a giraffe | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Its strong heart and special blood vessels keep blood flowing to its brain ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:65-the-heart-and-blood:t8:o1:1 # text = Its strong heart and special blood vessels keep blood flowing to its brain 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 vessels vessel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 flowing flow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | Its strong heart and special blood vessels | blood | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **flow** | gerund | blood *not said here* | | | | | to blood's brain | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} It holds its breath to keep blood in its head ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:65-the-heart-and-blood:t8:o2:1 # text = It holds its breath to keep blood in its head 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | It | its breath | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | | blood | | blood's head | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent blood=Theme in head=Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} It always drinks lying down ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:65-the-heart-and-blood:t8:o3:1 # text = It always drinks lying down 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 3 advmod _ _ 3 drinks drink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 down down ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink** | present | It | | | | | always *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **lie down** | gerund | | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Its brain is in its neck ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:65-the-heart-and-blood:t8:o4:1 # text = Its brain is in its neck 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Its brain | | | brain's neck | | | tree rules | **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. 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