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title: A footballer trains high in the mountains for weeks. Why might this… — Lungs, air and keeping fit · tree and pragmatics
description: A footballer trains high in the mountains for weeks. Why might this help? Test 4 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Lungs, air and keeping fit

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A footballer trains high in the mountains for weeks. Why might this help?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** footballer · **What happens:** train · **To what, where:** mountains

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A footballer trains high in the mountains for weeks.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t4:1
# text = A footballer trains high in the mountains for weeks.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	footballer	footballer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	trains	train	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | present | a footballer |  |  | the mountains | week | high *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Why might this help?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t4:2
# text = Why might this help?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	aux	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Mountains have weaker gravity, so running is much easier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t4:o1:1
# text = Mountains have weaker gravity, so running is much easier
1	Mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Mountains | weaker gravity |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gravity=Patient |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | Mountains *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |

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

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Her body gets used to working with less oxygen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t4:o2:1
# text = Her body gets used to working with less oxygen
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | Her body |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with less oxygen | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with oxygen=Co-Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The mountain air has extra oxygen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t4:o3:1
# text = The mountain air has extra oxygen
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the mountain air | extra oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cold air makes her lungs bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t4:o4:1
# text = Cold air makes her lungs bigger
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Cold air | air's lungs |  |  |  | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lung=Product |

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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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