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title: If the arteries to a leg were blocked, what would the leg lose first? — The heart, blood and breathing · tree and pragmatics
description: If the arteries to a leg were blocked, what would the leg lose first? Test 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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# Test 4 · ★ · The heart, blood and breathing

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If the arteries to a leg were blocked, what would the leg lose first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** leg · **What happens:** block, lose · **To what, where:** arteries

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:32-heart-blood-breathing:t4:1
# text = If the arteries to a leg were blocked, what would the leg lose first?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	arteries	artery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	blocked	block	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **block** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | the arteries to a leg |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | would | the leg |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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Its nerves only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:32-heart-blood-breathing:t4:o1:1
# text = Its nerves only
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Its skin colour forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:32-heart-blood-breathing:t4:o2:1
# text = Its skin colour forever
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Its bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:32-heart-blood-breathing:t4:o3:1
# text = Its bones
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Its supply of oxygen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:32-heart-blood-breathing:t4:o4:1
# text = Its supply of oxygen
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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