Test 6 · ★★ · Swimming basics and water confidence

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Swimming basics and water confidence» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	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

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

Floating only works in salty water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 works	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 works	advmod
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	work	present						in salty water	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in water=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Floating on your back saves energy and lets you breathe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 saves	csubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 back	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 back	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Floating	obl
5	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saves	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lets	cc
8	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saves	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 lets	obj
10	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	float	gerund			your back	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
2	save	present	Floating	energy		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme
3	let	present	Floating not said here	you		tree rules
4	breathe	infinitive	you not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

You must kick hard all the time to stay up on your back in water

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 kick	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 kick	aux
3	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 kick	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kick	obl:unmarked
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stay	mark
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kick	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 stay	compound:prt
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 back	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 back	nmod:poss
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stay	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 water	case
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	must	You				time	hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	stay up	to-infinitive	You not said here			your back		in water	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Location

Option 4

Floating makes you sink faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 sink	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	float	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present		you		tree rules
3	sink	infinitive	you not said here		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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