Test 7 · ★★ · Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail ma…

Why is jumping from a bridge into a river dangerous, even if you can swim well?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: jump, swim · To what, where: bridge

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 325 «Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety» 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 jumping	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 jumping	aux
3	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 bridge	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumping	obl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumping	obl
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 river	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 swim	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	16 swim	advmod
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 swim	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 swim	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 swim	aux
16	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 jumping	conj
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 swim	advmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 jumping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	present · progressive				a bridge		into a river result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into river=Result
2	swim a condition, not said to happen	can	you					well property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Bridge water is always too cold to swim in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	compound
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cold	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cold	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 cold	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 swim	mark
8	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cold	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 swim	obl

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

Option 2

You might land on a boat that is always there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 land	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 land	aux
3	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 boat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boat	det
6	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 land	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 there	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 there	cop
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 there	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 boat	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	might	You			a boat			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on boat=Destination
2	is	present	a boat					always, there property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The water may hide rocks or be shallow

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	4 hide	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hide	aux
4	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hide	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 shallow	cc
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 shallow	cop
8	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hide	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	may	the water	rocks					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient
2	is	infinitive	the water not said here					shallow property	tree rules

Option 4

Swimmers always sink faster from a height

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sink	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 sink	advmod
3	sink	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 sink	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 height	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 height	det
7	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	present	Swimmers			a height		always, fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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