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Test 9 · ★★ · Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail ma…

Two cousins play «who can hold the other under longest» in the pool. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two cousins · What happens: play, hold, be · To what, where: other, pool

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Two cousins play «who can hold the other under longest» in the pool.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cousins	nummod
2	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 play	nsubj
3	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 hold	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 hold	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hold	aux
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 play	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hold	obj
10	under	under	ADP	_	11 longest	case
11	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 hold	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 longest	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pool	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pool	det
15	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 play	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	Two cousins						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hold in a quote	can		the other		the pool			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme long=Eventuality

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.

Sentence 2: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is fine because they are family

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	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	7 family	case
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 family	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 family	cop
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	is	present	they					because family	tree rules

Option 2

It is fine as long as they count to ten and then let go

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	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 count	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 count	nsubj
8	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 long	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 ten	case
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 count	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 let	advmod
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	conj
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine, long property	tree rules
2	count	present	they					to ten	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to ten=Experiencer
3	let	infinitive					then		tree rules
4	go	infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It is fine in the shallow end

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	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 end	det
6	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 end	amod
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					in the shallow end	fine property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is never safe; someone could swallow water and drown

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 safe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 safe	advmod
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 swallow	punct
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 swallow	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 swallow	aux
8	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 safe	parataxis
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swallow	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drown	cc
11	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 swallow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It					safe property	tree rules
2	swallow	could	someone	water					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
3	drown	infinitive	someone not said here						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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