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title: After a day in a smoky city, Ana coughs up mucus with dark specks in… — Lungs, air and keeping fit · tree and pragmatics
description: After a day in a smoky city, Ana coughs up mucus with dark specks in it. What were the specks? Test 5 · ★ 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 5 · ★ · Lungs, air and keeping fit

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After a day in a smoky city, Ana coughs up mucus with dark specks in it. What were the specks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ana · **What happens:** cough up, be · **To what, where:** mucus, specks

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* After a day in a smoky city, Ana coughs up mucus with dark specks in it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t5:1
# text = After a day in a smoky city, Ana coughs up mucus with dark specks in it.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	smoky	smoky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	Ana	Ana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	coughs	cough	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	mucus	mucus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	specks	speck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cough up** | present | Ana | mucus |  |  | day | with dark specks in mucus | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mucus=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What were the specks?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t5:2
# text = What were the specks?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	specks	speck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 | **is a** | past |  | the specks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Old red blood cells that came up from the heart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t5:o1:1
# text = Old red blood cells that came up from the heart
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | Old red blood cells |  |  | the heart |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from heart=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Oxygen that has turned dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t5:o2:1
# text = Oxygen that has turned dark
1	Oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present · perfect | Oxygen |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bits of the lungs themselves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t5:o3:1
# text = Bits of the lungs themselves
1	Bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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Dust and smoke specks trapped by the airways

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t5:o4:1
# text = Dust and smoke specks trapped by the airways
1	Dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	specks	speck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	airways	airway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trap** | participle |  | smoke specks *not said here* |  |  |  | by the airways | vn trick-59.2 «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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