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title: You feel low after a bad day. What might help? — Exercise and posture · tree and pragmatics
description: You feel low after a bad day. What might help? Test 9 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 9 · Exercise and posture

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You feel low after a bad day. What might help?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** feel, help

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You feel low after a bad day.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t9:1
# text = You feel low after a bad day.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | You |  |  |  | day | low *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:* What might help?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t9:2
# text = What might help?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | might |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Sitting alone in the dark to think it over

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t9:o1:1
# text = Sitting alone in the dark to think it over
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  | the dark |  | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dark=Location |
| 2 | **think over** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | dark |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Eating only sweets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t9:o2:1
# text = Eating only sweets
1	Eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  | sweets |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Skipping sleep to watch more videos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t9:o3:1
# text = Skipping sleep to watch more videos
1	Skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	videos	video	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | gerund |  | sleep |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Agent |
| 2 | **watch** | to-infinitive |  | more videos |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent video=Theme |

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

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Going for a walk or a kick-about

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t9:o4:1
# text = Going for a walk or a kick-about
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kick	kick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a walk or a kick; about *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for walk=Beneficiary |

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