Test 13 · ★ · Campfires, cold nights and rivers

river looks shallow, can i wade across

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: river, i · What happens: look, wade

This is test 13 · ★ 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	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looks	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wade	punct
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wade	aux
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 wade	nsubj
7	wade	wade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looks	conj
8	across	across	ADV	_	7 wade	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	river					shallow property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	wade	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

Yes, run across

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 run	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	across	across	ADV	_	3 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here					across property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Only if you're holding a big stick to lean on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 holding	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 holding	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 holding	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 holding	aux
5	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stick	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stick	amod
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holding	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 lean	mark
10	lean	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 holding	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 lean	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present · progressive	you	a big stick					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
2	lean on	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, if it's only knee-deep it can't hurt u

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 knee	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 knee	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 knee	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 knee	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 knee	advmod
7	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 deep	punct
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 knee	amod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hurt	nsubj
11	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hurt	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 hurt	advmod
13	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 deep	ccomp
14	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	knee					tree rules
2	not hurt	can	knee	u					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, fast water can knock you over even if shallow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 fast	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knock	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 knock	aux
6	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 knock	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	6 knock	compound:prt
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 shallow	advmod
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 shallow	mark
11	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knock	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock over	can	fast water	you					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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