Test 16 · ★★ · Safe at lakes and beaches

Why do many children drown with people nearby?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many children · What happens: drown

This is test 16 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 drown	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drown	aux
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 children	amod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drown	nsubj
5	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drown	obl
8	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	5 drown	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 drown	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	present · do-support	many children					with people; nearby property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with people=Instrument

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

Children only ever drown in very deep water far away from people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drown	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 drown	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 drown	advmod
4	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 deep	advmod
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drown	obl
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	4 drown	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 people	case
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	infinitive	Children			deep water	ever	away property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Drowning is quick and silent, with no shouting or waving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drowning	drowning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quick	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 quick	cop
3	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 silent	cc
5	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 quick	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shouting	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 shouting	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 shouting	det
9	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quick	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 waving	cc
11	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 shouting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Drowning	quick property	tree rules
2	be		Drowning not said here		tree rules
3	wave	gerund	Drowning not said here		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It only happens when the lifeguard is on a break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happens	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happens	advmod
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 break	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lifeguard	det
6	lifeguard	lifeguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 break	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 break	cop
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 break	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 break	det
10	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happens	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	It						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the lifeguard			a break			tree rules

Option 4

Drowning children always splash and scream loudly for help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drowning	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 splash	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 splash	advmod
4	splash	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scream	cc
6	scream	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 splash	conj
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	6 scream	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 help	case
9	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 splash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	drown	gerund			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	splash	present	Drowning children	for help; always property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	scream speech: express	present	Drowning children not said here	loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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