Test 9 · ★★ · Swimming basics and water confidence

Why do swimming teachers first teach children to blow bubbles and float?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swimming teachers · What happens: swim, teach, blow, float · To what, where: children, bubbles

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 swimming	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swimming	aux
3	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 teachers	amod
4	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 teach	nsubj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 teach	advmod
6	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 teach	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 blow	mark
9	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 teach	xcomp
10	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 blow	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 float	cc
12	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 blow	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 teach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	swim	present · do-support					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	teach speech: other	present	swimming teachers		children	first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
3	blow	to-infinitive	swimming teachers not said here	bubbles			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bubble=Patient
4	float	infinitive	swimming teachers not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «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.

The options

Option 1

They are only fun games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 games	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 games	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 games	advmod
4	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 games	amod
5	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	fun games					tree rules

Option 2

They stop water getting cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obj
4	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	They	water					tree rules
2	get	gerund	They not said here					cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They are the basic skills for staying calm and safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 skills	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 skills	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 skills	det
4	basic	basic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 skills	amod
5	skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 staying	mark
7	staying	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 skills	acl
8	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 staying	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 safe	cc
10	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 calm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	the basic skills					tree rules
2	stay	gerund	the basic skills not said here					calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They make children swim much faster straight away, in a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swim	nsubj
4	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 faster	advmod
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 swim	advmod
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 faster	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They				day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	swim	present	children					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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