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title: Tyler: "My legs have just quit, mate." What would happen if he'd run… — Running, gymnastics and martial arts · tree and pragmatics
description: Tyler: "My legs have just quit, mate." What would happen if he'd run an even pace? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 43 «Running, gymnastics and martial arts» 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 1 · ★★ · Running, gymnastics and martial arts

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Tyler: "My legs have just quit, mate." What would happen if he'd run an even pace?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Tyler · **What happens:** quit, happen, run · **To what, where:** Tyler, pace

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 43 «Running, gymnastics and martial arts» 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/43-running-gymnastics-and-martial-arts/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Tyler: "My legs have just quit, mate."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:43-running-gymnastics-and-martial-arts:t1:1
# text = Tyler: "My legs have just quit, mate."
1	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	quit	quit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quit** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | Tyler |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |

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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'd run an even pace?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:43-running-gymnastics-and-martial-arts:t1:2
# text = What would happen if he'd run an even pace?
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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 | **run** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | Tyler | a pace |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pace=Trajectory |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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His legs would quit even sooner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:43-running-gymnastics-and-martial-arts:t1:o1:1
# text = His legs would quit even sooner
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	quit	quit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quit** | would | His legs |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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He'd likely finish faster and stronger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:43-running-gymnastics-and-martial-arts:t1:o2:1
# text = He'd likely finish faster and stronger
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
4	finish	finish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past | He |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Nothing would change at all, pace doesn't matter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:43-running-gymnastics-and-martial-arts:t1:o3:1
# text = Nothing would change at all, pace doesn't matter
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  | all |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **matter** | present · do-support | pace |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He'd be even slower and more tired

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:43-running-gymnastics-and-martial-arts:t1:o4:1
# text = He'd be even slower and more tired
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	slower	slow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | He |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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