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title: Why would an astronaut back from six months in space find walking ha… — Sleep, exercise and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would an astronaut back from six months in space find walking hard at first? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Sleep, exercise and growing up» 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 · ★★ · Sleep, exercise and growing up

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Why would an astronaut back from six months in space find walking hard at first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** find, walk

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Sleep, exercise and growing up» 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/38-sleep-exercise-growing/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:38-sleep-exercise-growing:t3:1
# text = Why would an astronaut back from six months in space find walking hard at first?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present |  |  |  |  | month |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Trajectory |

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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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They forgot how to walk in their brain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:38-sleep-exercise-growing:t3:o1:1
# text = They forgot how to walk in their brain
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | They |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **walk** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  | their brain |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brain=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Earth has less gravity than space

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:38-sleep-exercise-growing:t3:o2:1
# text = Earth has less gravity than space
1	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Earth | less gravity |  |  |  | than space | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gravity=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Their legs got longer in space

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:38-sleep-exercise-growing:t3:o3:1
# text = Their legs got longer in space
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Their legs |  |  | space |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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

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Their muscles and bones weakened without weight to carry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:38-sleep-exercise-growing:t3:o4:1
# text = Their muscles and bones weakened without weight to carry
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	weakened	weaken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weaken** | past | Their muscles and bones |  |  |  |  | without weight | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | to-infinitive | Their muscles and bones *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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