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title: In a game your hero holds his breath for an hour underwater. Which a… — Lungs and breathing · tree and pragmatics
description: In a game your hero holds his breath for an hour underwater. Which animal could really do that? Test 10 of lesson 66 «Lungs and breathing» 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 10 · Lungs and breathing

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In a game your hero holds his breath for an hour underwater. Which animal could really do that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hero, animal · **What happens:** hold, do · **To what, where:** breath, game, that

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This is test 10 of lesson 66 «Lungs and breathing» 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/66-lungs-and-breathing/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a game your hero holds his breath for an hour underwater.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:66-lungs-and-breathing:t10:1
# text = In a game your hero holds his breath for an hour underwater.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	underwater	underwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | your hero | hero's breath |  | a game |  | for a hour underwater | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent breath=Theme in game=Location |

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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:* Which animal could really do that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:66-lungs-and-breathing:t10:2
# text = Which animal could really do that?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | could | which animal | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Goldfish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:66-lungs-and-breathing:t10:o1:1
# text = Goldfish
1	Goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Pet dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:66-lungs-and-breathing:t10:o2:1
# text = Pet dogs
1	Pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Humans who train hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:66-lungs-and-breathing:t10:o3:1
# text = Humans who train hard
1	Humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	train	train	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | present | Humans |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Some whales

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:66-lungs-and-breathing:t10:o4:1
# text = Some whales
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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