Test 12 · ★★ · Safe at lakes and beaches

lake's got green scummy stuff on top, can the dog swim

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog · What happens: get, swim

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 232 «Safe at lakes and beaches» 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	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuff	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 lake	case
3	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stuff	amod
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stuff	amod
5	scummy	scummy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stuff	amod
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 top	case
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuff	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 swim	punct
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 swim	aux
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dog	det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swim	nsubj
13	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stuff	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	participle							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	swim	can	the dog						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, it may be poisonous algae, keep the dog out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 algae	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 algae	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 algae	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 algae	cop
6	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 algae	amod
7	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 algae	punct
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	9 keep	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	may	it	poisonous algae					tree rules
2	keep out	infinitive	poisonous algae	the dog					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme

Option 2

Yes, dogs can't get sick from lake water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 water	compound
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	can	dogs			lake water		sick property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from water=Destination

Option 3

Yes, it's just weeds, they wash off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 weeds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 weeds	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 weeds	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 weeds	advmod
6	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wash	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wash	nsubj
9	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 weeds	acl:relcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 wash	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	weeds					tree rules
2	wash off	present	weeds = weed	weeds not said here					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=Patient

Option 4

Only if the dog swims fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 swims	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 swims	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swims	nsubj
5	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 swims	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	the dog					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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