Test 2 · ★★ · Safe at lakes and beaches
A boy in Minnesota jumps straight into a very cold lake and gasps, swallowing water. What lesson should he learn?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, lesson · What happens: jump, gasp, swallow, learn · To what, where: cold lake, swallowing water
This is test 2 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A boy in Minnesota jumps straight into a very cold lake and gasps, swallowing water.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jumps | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Minnesota | case |
| 4 | Minnesota | Minnesota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 lake | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 lake | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lake | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 cold | advmod |
| 10 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lake | amod |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jumps | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gasps | cc |
| 13 | gasps | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 jumps | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swallowing | punct |
| 15 | swallowing | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 water | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gasps | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 jumps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | present | a boy in Minnesota | into a cold lake result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into lake=Result | ||||
| 2 | gasp | present | a boy in Minnesota not said here | swallowing water | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic | ||||
| 3 | swallow | gerund | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
Sentence 2: What lesson should he learn?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 lesson | det |
| 2 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 learn | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 learn | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 learn | nsubj |
| 5 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 learn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | should | what lesson | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
He should have jumped in head first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 He | conj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 head | case |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jumped | obl |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 jumped | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | should | He not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | jump | past | He | head | first property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in head=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Get into cold water slowly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 3 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 water | amod |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Get | obl |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 1 Get | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | imperative | you not said here | cold water | slowly property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into water=Destination |
Option 3
Gasping means he is swimming well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gasping | gasping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swimming | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 swimming | aux |
| 5 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 means | ccomp |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 swimming | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Gasping | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | swim | present · progressive | Gasping | well property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Cold water is only dangerous in winter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 water | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dangerous | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dangerous | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 dangerous | advmod |
| 5 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 winter | case |
| 7 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dangerous | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Cold water | winter | dangerous property | tree rules |
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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