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title: A nurse presses two fingers on your wrist and counts. What is she me… — The heart, blood and breathing · tree and pragmatics
description: A nurse presses two fingers on your wrist and counts. What is she measuring? Test 3 · ★ 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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# Test 3 · ★ · The heart, blood and breathing

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A nurse presses two fingers on your wrist and counts. What is she measuring?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nurse · **What happens:** press, count, measure · **To what, where:** two fingers, wrist

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 32 «The heart, blood and breathing» 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/32-heart-blood-breathing/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A nurse presses two fingers on your wrist and counts.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:32-heart-blood-breathing:t3:1
# text = A nurse presses two fingers on your wrist and counts.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	presses	press	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | present | a nurse | two fingers |  | your wrist |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme |
| 2 | **count** | present | a nurse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is she measuring?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:32-heart-blood-breathing:t3:2
# text = What is she measuring?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	measuring	measure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **measure** | present · progressive | nurse |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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How deep you breathe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:32-heart-blood-breathing:t3:o1:1
# text = How deep you breathe
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | present | you |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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How fast your heart beats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:32-heart-blood-breathing:t3:o2:1
# text = How fast your heart beats
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | present | your heart |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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How strong your bones are

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:32-heart-blood-breathing:t3:o3:1
# text = How strong your bones are
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | your bones |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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How hot your blood is

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:32-heart-blood-breathing:t3:o4:1
# text = How hot your blood is
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | your blood |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | 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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