Test 7 · ★★ · The sea, waves and swimming pools

Why should beginners not wade out until the water is at their chest?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: beginners, water · What happens: not wade out, be · To what, where: chest

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 wade	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wade	aux
3	beginners	beginner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wade	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 wade	advmod
5	wade	wade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 wade	compound:prt
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 chest	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chest	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 chest	cop
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 chest	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 chest	nmod:poss
13	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wade	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wade	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wade out	should	beginners						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the water			beginners's chest			tree rules

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

Fish bite deeper in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bite	nsubj
2	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 bite	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Fish			the sea		deep property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sea=Location

Option 2

The water out there is always far too cold for beginners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	nsubj
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 water	advmod
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cold	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 is	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 cold	advmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 cold	advmod
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 beginners	case
11	beginners	beginner	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						for beginners; cold, far property	tree rules

Option 3

They will lose their sandals and have to walk home barefoot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sandals	nmod:poss
5	sandals	sandal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 have	cc
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 walk	mark
9	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 walk	advmod
11	barefoot	barefoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walk	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	future	They	their sandals		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandal=Eventuality
2	have	present	They not said here			tree rules
3	walk	to-infinitive	They not said here	barefoot	home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme barefoot=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The sea floor can drop suddenly and waves can knock them over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 floor	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floor	compound
3	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drop	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 drop	aux
5	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 drop	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 knock	cc
8	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 knock	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 knock	aux
10	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 drop	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knock	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	10 knock	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	can	the sea floor					suddenly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	knock over	can	waves	them = they					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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