Test 16 · ★ · Rain, floods and storms

Why is it dangerous to play in floodwater?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, play · To what, where: floodwater

This is test 16 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dangerous	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dangerous	nsubj
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 play	mark
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dangerous	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 floodwater	case
8	floodwater	floodwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 play	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					dangerous property	tree rules
2	play	to-infinitive				floodwater			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 too cold for children to play in for long

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	4 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 children	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cold	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 play	mark
8	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cold	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 play	compound:prt
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 long	case
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for children; cold property	tree rules
2	play in	to-infinitive							vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for long=Eventuality

Option 2

It is only dangerous at night, when it is hard to see

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	4 dangerous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 dangerous	advmod
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dangerous	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hard	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 hard	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hard	expl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hard	cop
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dangerous	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	night	dangerous property	tree rules
2	is	present			hard property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

It can be fast, deep and full of dirt and germs

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	4 fast	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fast	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fast	cop
4	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deep	punct
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fast	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 full	cc
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fast	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 dirt	case
10	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 germs	cc
12	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dirt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	can	It	fast property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	be			of dirt and germs	tree rules

Option 4

Floods are boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 boring	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 boring	cop
3	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Floods					boring property	tree rules

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