Test 2 · ★ · Rain, floods and storms

Which is true about floodwater?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 floodwater	case
5	floodwater	floodwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about floodwater; true property	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

Floodwater is clean, because it is rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floodwater	floodwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	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	_	8 rain	punct
5	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 rain	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rain	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rain	cop
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clean	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Floodwater					clean property	tree rules
2	is	present	it					because rain	tree rules

Option 2

Only deep water over your head is dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 water	advmod
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dangerous	nsubj
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dangerous	cop
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	deep water over your head					dangerous property	tree rules

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

Even shallow moving water can knock you down or float a car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Even	even	ADV	_	2 shallow	advmod
2	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
3	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knock	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 knock	aux
6	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 knock	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 knock	compound:prt
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 float	cc
10	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 knock	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 car	det
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 float	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	move	gerund			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	knock down	can	shallow moving water	you	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	float	infinitive	shallow moving water not said here	a car	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme

Option 4

Cars are heavy enough to drive safely through any flood they meet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heavy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heavy	cop
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 heavy	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 drive	mark
6	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heavy	advcl
7	safely	safely	ADV	_	6 drive	advmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 flood	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 flood	det
10	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drive	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 meet	nsubj
12	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 flood	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cars			enough, heavy property	tree rules
2	drive	to-infinitive	Cars not said here		any flood	safely property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through flood=Trajectory
3	meet	present	Cars = car	any flood not said here			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flood=Co-Agent

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