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title: Why does the nurse make you blow into a tube at your check? — Asthma and inhalers · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does the nurse make you blow into a tube at your check? Test 9 of lesson 14 «Asthma and inhalers» of the medicine 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 9 · Asthma and inhalers

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Why does the nurse make you blow into a tube at your check?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** make, blow, check · **To what, where:** you, tube

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This is test 9 of lesson 14 «Asthma and inhalers» of the medicine 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/medicine/14-asthma-and-inhalers/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:t9:1
# text = Why does the nurse make you blow into a tube at your check?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · do-support |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **blow** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a tube |  | at your check | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into tube=Product |
| 3 | **check** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom check «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#o1}

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To test how well you can sing and whistle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:t9:o1:1
# text = To test how well you can sing and whistle
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	test	test	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	whistle	whistle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | can | you |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **whistle** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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To see how open your airways are

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:t9:o2:1
# text = To see how open your airways are
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	airways	airway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | your airways |  |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To clean the dust out of your lungs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:t9:o3:1
# text = To clean the dust out of your lungs
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	clean	clean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean** | to-infinitive |  | the dust |  | your lungs |  |  | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dust=Theme out lung=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To measure how tall you've grown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:t9:o4:1
# text = To measure how tall you've grown
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	measure	measure	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **measure** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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