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description: Cramp hits mid-swim, halfway across. What would happen if he panicked and thrashed? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 37 «Warming up, stitches and cramp» 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 right.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Warming up, stitches and cramp

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Cramp hits mid-swim, halfway across. What would happen if he panicked and thrashed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Cramp · **What happens:** hit, happen, panic, thrash · **To what, where:** mid-swim

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 37 «Warming up, stitches and cramp» 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/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Cramp hits mid-swim, halfway across.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp:t10:1
# text = Cramp hits mid-swim, halfway across.
1	Cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mid-swim	mid-swim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	halfway	halfway	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	across	across	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | present | Cramp | mid-swim |  |  |  | across *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mid-swim=Co-Theme |

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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 would happen if he panicked and thrashed?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp:t10:2
# text = What would happen if he panicked and thrashed?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	panicked	panic	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	thrashed	thrash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **panic** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Cramp |  |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **thrash** | participle | Cramp *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nothing, thrashing is the safe choice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp:t10:o1:1
# text = Nothing, thrashing is the safe choice
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	thrashing	thrashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nothing thrashing | the safe choice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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He'd tire fast and could swallow water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp:t10:o2:1
# text = He'd tire fast and could swallow water
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	tire	tire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tire** | would | He |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **swallow** | could | He *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He would sink straight to the bottom of the pool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp:t10:o3:1
# text = He would sink straight to the bottom of the pool
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | would | He |  |  |  |  | to the bottom of the pool | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The cramp would vanish faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp:t10:o4:1
# text = The cramp would vanish faster
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | would | the cramp |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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