Exam question 3 · Rain, floods and storms

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning floodwater.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, floodwater

This is exam question 3 of lesson 235 «Rain, floods and storms» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	floodwater	floodwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	floodwater		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus floodwater=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

It is safe once it has stopped rising, even when deep

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 safe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	once	once	SCONJ	_	7 stopped	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stopped	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stopped	aux
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 safe	advcl
8	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stopped	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 deep	punct
10	even	even	ADV	_	12 deep	advmod
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 deep	advmod
12	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 safe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	safe property	tree rules
2	stop	present · perfect	it		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	rise	gerund			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be				tree rules

Option 2

It is safe for swimming provided that it is warm

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 safe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 provided	mark
5	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 provided	nsubj
6	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 warm	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 warm	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 warm	cop
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 provided	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	safe property	tree rules
2	provide	past	swimming		vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
3	is	present	swimming	warm property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It may contain sewage, chemicals and hidden dangers

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 contain	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 contain	aux
3	contain	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sewage	sewage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 contain	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chemicals	punct
6	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sewage	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dangers	cc
8	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dangers	amod
9	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sewage	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	may	It	sewage and chemicals and hidden dangers					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sewage=Theme

Option 4

It is clean, being rainwater

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 clean	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clean	cop
3	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rainwater	punct
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 rainwater	cop
6	rainwater	rainwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clean	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					clean property	tree rules
2	is a	gerund		rainwater					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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