Test 8 · ★ · Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming

Why is chlorine put in pool water, even though it can sting eyes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: water · What happens: put, sting · To what, where: chlorine, pool water, eyes

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 249 «Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming» 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 put	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux:pass
3	chlorine	chlorine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl:unmarked
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 water	compound
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sting	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	13 sting	advmod
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 sting	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sting	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 sting	aux
13	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	conj
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sting	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present · passive		chlorine		pool water			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in water=Destination
2	sting	can	water	eyes					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To kill germs, and goggles stop the stinging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 kill	mark
2	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stop	advcl
3	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kill	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stop	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stop	cc
6	goggles	goggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stop	nsubj
7	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stinging	det
9	stinging	stinging	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	to-infinitive	goggles not said here	germs					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	stop	present	goggles	the stinging					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality stinging=Eventuality

Option 2

To make swimmers float higher in the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 float	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		swimmers					tree rules
2	float	infinitive	swimmers not said here			the water		high property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory

Option 3

To make the water a nice bright blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nice	det
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blue	amod
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the water				nice property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product

Option 4

To warm the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 warm	mark
2	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	to-infinitive		the water					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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