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title: Why might a sprinter pull a muscle if she runs fast without warming… — Skating and sports safety · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a sprinter pull a muscle if she runs fast without warming up? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 6 «Skating and sports safety» 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 right.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Skating and sports safety

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Why might a sprinter pull a muscle if she runs fast without warming up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sprinter · **What happens:** pull, run, warm up · **To what, where:** muscle

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 6 «Skating and sports safety» of the everyday 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/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:6-skating-and-sports-safety:t2:1
# text = Why might a sprinter pull a muscle if she runs fast without warming up?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sprinter	sprinter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	warming	warm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | might | a sprinter | a muscle |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Theme |
| 2 | **run** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | sprinter |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **warm up** | gerund | a sprinter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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Her shoes are too new

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:6-skating-and-sports-safety:t2:o1:1
# text = Her shoes are too new
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Her shoes |  |  |  |  | new *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She is too rested

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:6-skating-and-sports-safety:t2:o2:1
# text = She is too rested
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | present · passive |  | She |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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

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Her cold muscles are stiff and strain easily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:6-skating-and-sports-safety:t2:o3:1
# text = Her cold muscles are stiff and strain easily
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	strain	strain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Her cold muscles |  |  |  |  | stiff *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **strain** | present | Her cold muscles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cold muscles are actually stronger than warm ones, so it is not that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:6-skating-and-sports-safety:t2:o4:1
# text = Cold muscles are actually stronger than warm ones, so it is not that
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	that	that	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Cold muscles |  |  |  |  | than warm ones; actually, strong, that *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **be** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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