Test 8 · ★ · Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking

Why is swimming in an old quarry so dangerous, even for good swimmers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: swim · To what, where: old quarry

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 299 «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» 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	3 swimming	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swimming	aux
3	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 quarry	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 quarry	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 quarry	amod
7	quarry	quarry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swimming	obl
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 dangerous	advmod
9	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swimming	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swimmers	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 swimmers	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 swimmers	case
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 swimmers	amod
14	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swimming	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 swimming	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present · progressive				a old quarry		for good swimmers	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in quarry=Trajectory

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

Quarry water is always salty and stings your eyes badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quarry	Quarry	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 water	compound
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 salty	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 salty	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 salty	advmod
5	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stings	cc
7	stings	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 salty	conj
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stings	obj
10	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 stings	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Quarry water					always, salty property	tree rules
2	sting	present	Quarry water not said here	your eyes				badly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer

Option 2

The water is too warm to swim in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 warm	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 warm	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 warm	advmod
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 swim	mark
7	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 warm	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	7 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the water					warm property	tree rules
2	swim	to-infinitive	the water not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Fish in quarries bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 quarries	case
3	quarries	quarry	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fish	nmod
4	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Fish in quarries						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The water is very deep and cold, and rocks can fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deep	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 deep	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 deep	advmod
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cold	cc
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deep	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fall	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fall	cc
10	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fall	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fall	aux
12	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 deep	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	the water	deep property	tree rules
2	be		the water not said here		tree rules
3	fall	can	rocks		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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