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title: Identify the principal danger of holding one's breath underwater for… — Peer pressure, happy secrets and being… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal danger of holding one's breath underwater for too long. Exam question 2 of lesson 315 «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Exam question 2 · Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted

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Identify the principal danger of holding one's breath underwater for too long.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, principal danger · **What happens:** identify, hold · **To what, where:** principal danger, breath

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 315 «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/everyday/315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal danger of holding one's breath underwater for too long.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	underwater	underwater	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal danger |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent danger=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | the principal danger *not said here* | one's breath |  |  |  | underwater *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |

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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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One's ears may become blocked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted:e2:o1:1
# text = One's ears may become blocked
1	One	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	blocked	block	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | may | One's ears |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **block** | participle | One's ears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One may become cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted:e2:o2:1
# text = One may become cold
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | may | One |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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One may swallow too much water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted:e2:o3:1
# text = One may swallow too much water
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | may | One | much water |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

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

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One may black out without warning and drown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted:e2:o4:1
# text = One may black out without warning and drown
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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