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title: Stitch halfway through sports day. Best move? — Exercise and posture · tree and pragmatics
description: Stitch halfway through sports day. Best move? Test 4 of lesson 34 «Exercise and posture» 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 4 · Exercise and posture

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Stitch halfway through sports day. Best move?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** stitch

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This is test 4 of lesson 34 «Exercise and posture» 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/34-exercise-and-posture/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Stitch halfway through sports day.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t4:1
# text = Stitch halfway through sports day.
1	Stitch	stitch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	halfway	halfway	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stitch** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | day | halfway *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Best move?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t4:2
# text = Best move?
1	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Drink a fizzy drink to settle it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t4:o1:1
# text = Drink a fizzy drink to settle it
1	Drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | imperative | you *not said here* | a fizzy drink |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient |
| 2 | **settle** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | drink |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lie flat on the grass and call an ambulance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t4:o2:1
# text = Lie flat on the grass and call an ambulance
1	Lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the grass |  | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a ambulance |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ambulance=Recipient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Slow down, breathe deeply, it'll pass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t4:o3:1
# text = Slow down, breathe deeply, it'll pass
1	Slow	slow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slow down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **breathe** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pass** | future | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sprint faster to get through it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t4:o4:1
# text = Sprint faster to get through it
1	Sprint	sprint	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprint** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | it |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through it=Destination |

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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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