Exam question 2 · Pools, lakes and ice
Identify the principal hazard of diving into shallow water.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, principal hazard · What happens: identify, dive · To what, where: principal hazard, shallow water
This is exam question 2 of lesson 45 «Pools, lakes and ice» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hazard | det |
| 3 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hazard | amod |
| 4 | hazard | hazard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 diving | mark |
| 6 | diving | dive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 hazard | acl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 water | amod |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 diving | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the principal hazard | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hazard=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dive | gerund | the principal hazard not said here | shallow water | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Location |
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
A mild chill of the skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chill | det |
| 2 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chill | amod |
| 3 | chill | chill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 skin | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skin | det |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chill | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The loss of a swimming cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 loss | det |
| 2 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cap | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cap | det |
| 5 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cap | compound |
| 6 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loss | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Water entering the ears and causing pain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entering | nsubj |
| 2 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ears | det |
| 4 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 entering | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 causing | cc |
| 6 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 entering | conj |
| 7 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 causing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | Water | the ears | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ear=Destination | ||||
| 2 | cause | gerund | Water not said here | pain | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pain=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Serious injury to the head and neck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 injury | amod |
| 2 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 head | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 head | det |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 injury | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 neck | cc |
| 7 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 head | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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