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title: Why are you still breathing hard for a short while after you stop ru… — Lungs, air and keeping fit · tree and pragmatics
description: Why are you still breathing hard for a short while after you stop running? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Lungs, air and keeping fit

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Why are you still breathing hard for a short while after you stop running?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** breathe, stop, run

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t8:1
# text = Why are you still breathing hard for a short while after you stop running?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  | still; while | hard *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stop** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Your body is still catching up on the oxygen it needs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t8:o1:1
# text = Your body is still catching up on the oxygen it needs
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch up** | present · progressive | Your body |  |  | the oxygen | still |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **need** | present | body | the oxygen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot oxygen=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Your lungs are full of nitrogen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t8:o2:1
# text = Your lungs are full of nitrogen
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Your lungs |  |  |  |  | of nitrogen; full *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Your heart has stopped for a moment and needs to restart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t8:o3:1
# text = Your heart has stopped for a moment and needs to restart
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	restart	restart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present · perfect | Your heart |  |  |  | moment |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **need** | present | Your heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **restart** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Your heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Running has made your lungs smaller

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:93-lungs-air-keeping-fit:t8:o4:1
# text = Running has made your lungs smaller
1	Running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	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	_	_
6	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present · perfect |  | your lungs |  |  |  | small *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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