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Test 3 · ★★ · Pools, lakes and ice

A dad looks at his phone for a few minutes while his children swim. Why is this risky?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, children, this · What happens: look, swim, be

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 45 «Pools, lakes and ice» 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: A dad looks at his phone for a few minutes while his children swim.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dad	det
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 phone	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 phone	nmod:poss
6	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 minutes	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 minutes	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 minutes	amod
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looks	obl
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 swim	mark
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 children	nmod:poss
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 swim	nsubj
14	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looks	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	a dad				minute	at dad's phone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme
2	swim	present	dad's children						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.

Sentence 2: Why is this risky?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 risky	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 risky	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 risky	nsubj
4	risky	risky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 risky	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Children only get into trouble when he is watching them closely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 get	advmod
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 trouble	case
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 watching	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 watching	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 watching	aux
9	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 get	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 watching	obj
11	closely	closely	ADV	_	9 watching	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Children			trouble			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination
2	watch	present · progressive	he	Children = child				closely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A child can slip under quietly and he would not notice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slip	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slip	aux
4	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	6 quietly	case
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 slip	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 notice	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 notice	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 notice	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 notice	advmod
11	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slip	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	can	a child					quietly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	not notice	would	child						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

The phone could fall in the pool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 phone	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pool	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pool	det
7	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	could	the phone			the pool			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pool=Location

Option 4

His children are sure to splash him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 children	nmod:poss
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sure	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	cop
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 splash	mark
6	splash	splash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sure	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 splash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	His children					sure property	tree rules
2	splash	to-infinitive	His children not said here	him = he					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

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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