Test 15 · ★★ · The sea, waves and swimming pools

big wave knocked me down, my ears hurt

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big wave · What happens: knock down, hurt · To what, where: me, ears

This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 233 «The sea, waves and swimming pools» 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	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wave	amod
2	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knocked	nsubj
3	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 knocked	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 knocked	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ears	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ears	nmod:poss
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knocked	conj
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ears	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	past	big wave	me					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	hurt	participle		my ears not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Dive under the next wave so it can't hit u

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dive	dive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	5 wave	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wave	det
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wave	amod
5	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dive	obl
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 hit	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hit	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hit	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 hit	advmod
10	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dive	advcl
11	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive	imperative	you not said here			the next wave			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under wave=Location
2	not hit	can	wave	u					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Swim out further, past where the waves break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Swim	advmod
3	further	further	ADV	_	1 Swim	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 break	punct
5	past	past	ADP	_	9 break	mark
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 break	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 waves	det
8	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 break	nsubj
9	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Swim	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim out	imperative	you not said here					further, out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	break	present	the waves						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Get out, rest and tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Get	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rest	punct
4	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Get	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Get	conj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	get out	imperative	you not said here		out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rest	infinitive	you not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 4

Go back in straight away to shake it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 away	case
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Go	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shake	mark
7	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shake	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	7 shake	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	imperative	you not said here						vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	shake off	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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