Test 12 · ★ · Campfires, cold nights and rivers
river looks dead calm, can i swim across
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: river, i · What happens: look, swim
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 231 «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» of the everyday 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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 calm | amod |
| 4 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looks | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swim | punct |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 swim | aux |
| 7 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 swim | nsubj |
| 8 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 looks | conj |
| 9 | across | across | ADV | _ | 8 swim | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | river | calm property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | swim | can | i | across property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, calm water can still pull you away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 pull | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 water | amod |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pull | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 pull | aux |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 pull | advmod |
| 7 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 pull | obj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 pull | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull away | can | calm water | you | still | away property | tree rules |
Option 2
Only if you can see the bottom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottom | det |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | you | the bottom | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottom=Stimulus |
Option 3
Yes, if you swim fast enough to the other side
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 swim | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 swim | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 swim | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 swim | nsubj |
| 5 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 swim | advmod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 swim | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 side | amod |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swim | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | present | you | the other side | enough, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Destination |
Option 4
Yes, calm means no current at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 calm | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 current | det |
| 6 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 current | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | calm | no current | all | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent current=Topic |
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