Exam question 4 · The sea, waves and swimming pools

Ascertain the place where most drownings of young children occur.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, most drownings · What happens: ascertain, occur · To what, where: place

This is exam question 4 of lesson 233 «The sea, waves and swimming pools» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 place	det
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 occur	advmod
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 drownings	amod
6	drownings	drowning	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 occur	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 children	case
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 children	amod
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drownings	nmod
10	occur	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 place	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the place					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic
2	occur	present	most drownings of young children						vn occur-48.3-1 «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

In public fountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 fountains	case
2	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fountains	amod
3	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

In bathtubs at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 bathtubs	case
2	bathtubs	bathtub	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathtubs	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

In deep oceans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 oceans	case
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 oceans	amod
3	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In home swimming pools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 pools	case
2	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swimming	compound
3	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pools	compound
4	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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