--- title: Why does a person with asthma find it hard to blow out candles? — Lungs, air and keeping fit · tree and pragmatics description: Why does a person with asthma find it hard to blow out candles? Test 6 · ★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/93-lungs-air-keeping-fit/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Lungs, air and keeping fit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/93-lungs-air-keeping-fit/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Lungs, air and keeping fit Why does a person with asthma find it hard to blow out candles? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** person · **What happens:** do, find, blow out · **To what, where:** person, candles This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t6:1 # text = Why does a person with asthma find it hard to blow out candles? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 asthma asthma NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 7 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 candles candle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | | a person | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Eventuality | | 2 | **find** | present | | person | | | | with asthma; hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 3 | **blow out** | to-infinitive | person *not said here* | candles | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent candle=Patient | 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} Their lungs make far too much oxygen to blow ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t6:o1:1 # text = Their lungs make far too much oxygen to blow 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Their lungs | much oxygen | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oxygen=Product | | 2 | **blow** | to-infinitive | Their lungs *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Narrow airways let less air in and out ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t6:o2:1 # text = Narrow airways let less air in and out 1 Narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 airways airway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 out out ADV RB _ 6 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | present | Narrow airways | less air | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Candles need lots of carbon dioxide to burn ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t6:o3:1 # text = Candles need lots of carbon dioxide to burn 1 Candles candle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Candles | lots of carbon dioxide | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme | | 2 | **burn** | to-infinitive | Candles *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Their diaphragm is much too strong to control ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t6:o4:1 # text = Their diaphragm is much too strong to control 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 diaphragm diaphragm NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 much much ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 control control VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Their diaphragm | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **control** | to-infinitive | Their diaphragm *not said here* | | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | **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. 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