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description: Identify the principal cause of muscular soreness experienced one to two days after unaccustomed exercise. Exam question 1 of lesson 39 «Sore the next day, stretching and rest days» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Exam question 1 · Sore the next day, stretching and rest days

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Identify the principal cause of muscular soreness experienced one to two days after unaccustomed exercise.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, muscular soreness · **What happens:** identify, experience · **To what, where:** principal cause

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 39 «Sore the next day, stretching and rest days» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/39-sore-the-next-day-stretching-and-rest-days/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:39-sore-the-next-day-stretching-and-rest-days:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal cause of muscular soreness experienced one to two days after unaccustomed exercise.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	muscular	muscular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	soreness	soreness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	experienced	experience	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	unaccustomed	unaccustomed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal cause |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme |
| 2 | **experience** | past | muscular soreness | the principal cause *not said here* |  |  | after unaccustomed exercise; day |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cause=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Deficiency of sports drinks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:39-sore-the-next-day-stretching-and-rest-days:e1:o1:1
# text = Deficiency of sports drinks
1	Deficiency	deficiency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Minute strains in the muscle undergoing repair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:39-sore-the-next-day-stretching-and-rest-days:e1:o2:1
# text = Minute strains in the muscle undergoing repair
1	Minute	minute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	strains	strain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	undergoing	undergoing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	repair	repair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fracture of the underlying bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:39-sore-the-next-day-stretching-and-rest-days:e1:o3:1
# text = Fracture of the underlying bones
1	Fracture	fracture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	underlying	underlying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fracture** |  |  | the underlying bones |  |  |  |  | nom fracture «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The retention of lactic acid in the muscle for several days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:39-sore-the-next-day-stretching-and-rest-days:e1:o4:1
# text = The retention of lactic acid in the muscle for several days
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	retention	retention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	lactic	lactic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retain** |  |  | lactic acid |  | the muscle for several days |  |  | nom retention «act transitive»: of=patient in=place |

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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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