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title: "Hills are the worst, eh?" What helps Jack on hills? — Swimming and cycling · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hills are the worst, eh?" What helps Jack on hills? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 42 «Swimming and cycling» 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 10 · ★ · Swimming and cycling

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"Hills are the worst, eh?" What helps Jack on hills?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Hills · **What happens:** be, help · **To what, where:** Jack, hills

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 42 «Swimming and cycling» 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/42-swimming-and-cycling/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Hills are the worst, eh?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:t10:1
# text = "Hills are the worst, eh?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Hills |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |

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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 helps Jack on hills?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:t10:2
# text = What helps Jack on hills?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present |  |  | Jack | hills |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Beneficiary |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Leaning far back off the saddle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:t10:o1:1
# text = Leaning far back off the saddle
1	Leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | off the saddle | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Pedalling in the hardest gear for more power

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:t10:o2:1
# text = Pedalling in the hardest gear for more power
1	Pedalling	pedalling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	gear	gear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Using his gears and pedalling smoothly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:t10:o3:1
# text = Using his gears and pedalling smoothly
1	Using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	gears	gear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	pedalling	pedalling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | gerund |  | his gears and pedalling |  |  |  | smoothly *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gear=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Stopping pedalling to rest on the climb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:t10:o4:1
# text = Stopping pedalling to rest on the climb
1	Stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	pedalling	pedall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	climb	climb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pedall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the climb |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on climb=Location |

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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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