Test 4 · ★ · Swimming and cycling
In films drowning people scream and splash. What is real drowning often like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: films · What happens: drown, scream, splash, be · To what, where: people, real drowning
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 42 «Swimming and cycling» of the medicine 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: In films drowning people scream and splash.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 films | case |
| 2 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scream | nsubj |
| 3 | drowning | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 films | acl |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drowning | obj |
| 5 | scream | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 splash | cc |
| 7 | splash | splash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scream | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scream | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | gerund | films not said here | people | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | present | films | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | splash | present | films not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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.
Sentence 2: What is real drowning often like?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drowning | cop |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drowning | amod |
| 4 | drowning | drowning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 like | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | real drowning | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Loud screaming and splashing for minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 screaming | amod |
| 2 | screaming | scream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 splashing | cc |
| 4 | splashing | splash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 screaming | conj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 minutes | case |
| 6 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 splashing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | splash | gerund | minute | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Waving both arms high above the head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 arms | det |
| 3 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Waving | obj |
| 4 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Waving | advmod |
| 5 | above | above | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Waving | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | gerund | both arms | the head | high property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Quiet, head low, no waving
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 waving | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 low | punct |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 low | compound |
| 4 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Quiet | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 waving | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 waving | det |
| 7 | waving | waving | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Calling out names clearly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Calling | compound:prt |
| 3 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Calling | obj |
| 4 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 1 Calling | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | gerund | names | clearly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
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