Test 14 · ★ · Rain, floods and storms

road's flooded, dad says it's only a bit deep

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad, road · What happens: flood, say, be · To what, where: road, bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 235 «Rain, floods and storms» 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	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flooded	nsubj:pass
2	's	's	PART	_	1 road	case
3	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 flooded	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bit	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bit	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 bit	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	ccomp
12	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bit	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	flood	participle · passive		road	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	dad		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	road	a bit	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

Wait in the middle till the water goes down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 middle	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 middle	det
4	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 goes	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goes	nsubj
8	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			the middle			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
2	go down	present	the water					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Drive through fast so the water can't stop u

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	through	through	ADV	_	1 Drive	advmod
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Drive	advmod
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 stop	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stop	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stop	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 stop	advmod
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Drive	advcl
10	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	imperative	you not said here					fast, through property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	not stop	can	the water	u					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality you=Eventuality

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

Turn around, floodwater can sweep the car away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	around	around	ADV	_	1 Turn	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sweep	punct
4	floodwater	floodwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sweep	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sweep	aux
6	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Turn	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 car	det
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sweep	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	6 sweep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn around	imperative	you not said here					around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	sweep away	can	floodwater	the car				away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme car=Trajectory

Option 4

Wade across first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wade	Wade	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	across	across	ADV	_	1 Wade	advmod
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Wade	advmod

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

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