--- title: Your hay-fever mate sneezes all spring. "it's the air", he moans. Wh… — The air we breathe · tree and pragmatics description: Your hay-fever mate sneezes all spring. "it's the air", he moans. What's in the air? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 33 «The air we breathe» of the chemistry 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/chemistry/33-the-air-we-breathe/t9/) [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/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/) / [The air we breathe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/33-the-air-we-breathe/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★★ · The air we breathe Your hay-fever mate sneezes all spring. "it's the air", he moans. What's in the air? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fever mate, mate, he · **What happens:** sneeze, be, moan · **To what, where:** air This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 33 «The air we breathe» of the chemistry 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/chemistry/33-the-air-we-breathe/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your hay-fever mate sneezes all spring. "it's the air", he moans. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:33-the-air-we-breathe:t9:1 # text = Your hay-fever mate sneezes all spring. "it's the air", he moans. 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 2 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sneezes sneeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 moans moan VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sneeze** | present | Your fever mate | | | | spring | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | mate | the air | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **moan** | present | he | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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. *Sentence 2:* What's in the air? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:33-the-air-we-breathe:t9:2 # text = What's in the air? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Ozone from the sky ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:33-the-air-we-breathe:t9:o1:1 # text = Ozone from the sky 1 Ozone ozone NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Carbon dioxide ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:33-the-air-we-breathe:t9:o2:1 # text = Carbon dioxide 1 Carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Too much nitrogen ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:33-the-air-we-breathe:t9:o3:1 # text = Too much nitrogen 1 Too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 nitrogen nitrogen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Pollen from plants ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:33-the-air-we-breathe:t9:o4:1 # text = Pollen from plants 1 Pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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