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title: Identify the muscle beneath the lungs that assists inhalation. — The heart, blood and breathing · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the muscle beneath the lungs that assists inhalation. Exam question 4 of lesson 32 «The heart, blood and breathing» 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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# Exam question 4 · The heart, blood and breathing

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Identify the muscle beneath the lungs that assists inhalation.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, muscle · **What happens:** identify, assist · **To what, where:** muscle, inhalation

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 32 «The heart, blood and breathing» of the world 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/world/32-heart-blood-breathing/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:32-heart-blood-breathing:e4:1
# text = Identify the muscle beneath the lungs that assists inhalation.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	assists	assist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	inhalation	inhalation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	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 muscle |  |  |  | beneath the lungs | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent muscle=Theme |
| 2 | **assist** | present | the muscle | inhalation |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhalation=Beneficiary |

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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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The calf muscle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:32-heart-blood-breathing:e4:o1:1
# text = The calf muscle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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The diaphragm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:32-heart-blood-breathing:e4:o2:1
# text = The diaphragm
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	diaphragm	diaphragm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The biceps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:32-heart-blood-breathing:e4:o3:1
# text = The biceps
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	biceps	biceps	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The heart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:32-heart-blood-breathing:e4:o4:1
# text = The heart
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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