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title: Why can wet clothes in the cold be dangerous? — Sun, cold and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: Why can wet clothes in the cold be dangerous? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 86 «Sun, cold and growing up» 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 7 · ★ · Sun, cold and growing up

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Why can wet clothes in the cold be dangerous?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cold · **What happens:** wet, be · **To what, where:** clothes

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 86 «Sun, cold and growing up» 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/86-sun-cold-and-growing-up/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:86-sun-cold-and-growing-up:t7:1
# text = Why can wet clothes in the cold be dangerous?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	wet	wet	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wet** | can |  | clothes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | cold |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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They make the body lose heat fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:86-sun-cold-and-growing-up:t7:o1:1
# text = They make the body lose heat fast
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | They | the body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | infinitive | the body *not said here* | heat |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They make the body too hot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:86-sun-cold-and-growing-up:t7:o2:1
# text = They make the body too hot
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | They | the body |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset body=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They stop you from shivering

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:86-sun-cold-and-growing-up:t7:o3:1
# text = They stop you from shivering
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	shivering	shiver	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | They | you |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality you=Eventuality |
| 2 | **shiver** | gerund | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They are heavy and slow you down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:86-sun-cold-and-growing-up:t7:o4:1
# text = They are heavy and slow you down
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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