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title: What would happen if you lived in a cave with no clocks and no dayli… — Sleep and the body clock · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you lived in a cave with no clocks and no daylight for weeks? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 127 «Sleep and the body clock» of the world 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 · ★ · Sleep and the body clock

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What would happen if you lived in a cave with no clocks and no daylight for weeks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, live · **To what, where:** cave

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 127 «Sleep and the body clock» of the world 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/world/127-sleep-and-the-body-clock/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:127-sleep-and-the-body-clock:t9:1
# text = What would happen if you lived in a cave with no clocks and no daylight for weeks?
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	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	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 | **live** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  |  | a cave with no clocks and no daylight | week |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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You would stop sleeping altogether

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:127-sleep-and-the-body-clock:t9:o1:1
# text = You would stop sleeping altogether
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	_
5	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sleep** | gerund | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Your body would switch to a 12-hour day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:127-sleep-and-the-body-clock:t9:o2:1
# text = Your body would switch to a 12-hour day
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	switch	switch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	12-hour	12-hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **switch** | would | Your body |  |  |  | day |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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You would fall asleep and wake up at totally random times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:127-sleep-and-the-body-clock:t9:o3:1
# text = You would fall asleep and wake up at totally random times
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wake	wake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | would | You |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wake up** | present | You *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

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Your body clock would keep running on about 24 hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:127-sleep-and-the-body-clock:t9:o4:1
# text = Your body clock would keep running on about 24 hours
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | would | Your body clock |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | Your body clock *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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