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title: why's it harder to breathe up a big mountain — Lungs, air and keeping fit · tree and pragmatics
description: why's it harder to breathe up a big mountain Test 11 · ★ of lesson 93 «Lungs, air and keeping fit» 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 right.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Lungs, air and keeping fit

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why's it harder to breathe up a big mountain

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** it · **What happens:** be, breathe up · **To what, where:** big mountain

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 93 «Lungs, air and keeping fit» 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/93-lungs-air-keeping-fit/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t11:1
# text = why's it harder to breathe up a big mountain
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **breathe up** | to-infinitive |  | a big mountain |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme |

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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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The cold freezes your lungs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t11:o1:1
# text = The cold freezes your lungs
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	freezes	freeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | present | the cold | your lungs |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient lung=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The mountain pulls the air downhill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t11:o2:1
# text = The mountain pulls the air downhill
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	downhill	downhill	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | present | the mountain | the air |  |  |  | downhill *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The air is thinner, so each breath brings less oxygen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t11:o3:1
# text = The air is thinner, so each breath brings less oxygen
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	thinner	thin	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the air |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | present | each breath | less oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The air up there has no oxygen at all, only nitrogen gas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t11:o4:1
# text = The air up there has no oxygen at all, only nitrogen gas
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the air | no oxygen |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient |

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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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