Test 10 · ★★★ · Thinking like a lifeguard

why is swimming sideways out of a rip enough

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: swim · To what, where: rip

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «Thinking like a lifeguard» 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	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	3 swimming	advmod
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 rip	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 rip	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rip	det
8	rip	rip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swimming	obl
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 swimming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present · progressive				a rip		enough, sideways property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out rip=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

The sea is flatter sideways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flatter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flatter	cop
4	flatter	flat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	4 flatter	advmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Most rips are narrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 rips	amod
2	rips	rip	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 narrow	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 narrow	cop
4	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Rips stop sideways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rips	rip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	2 stop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Rips					sideways property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Rips pull you under

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rips	rip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pull	nsubj
2	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 pull	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	2 pull	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull under	present	Rips	you					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent you=Result

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