Exam question 2 · Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the behaviour of a person who is drowning?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: person · What happens: follow, characteris, drown · To what, where: behaviour
This is exam question 2 of lesson 71 «Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | 8 characterises | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 statements | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 statements | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 statements | amod |
| 5 | statements | statement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 characterises | obl |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 accurately | advmod |
| 7 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 8 characterises | advmod |
| 8 | characterises | characteris | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 behaviour | det |
| 10 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 characterises | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 person | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 behaviour | nmod |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 drowning | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 drowning | aux |
| 16 | drowning | drown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 person | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 characterises | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | characteris | present | the behaviour of a person | of the following statements; accurately property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drown | present · progressive | a person | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
The person is frequently silent and unable to call for assistance
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 silent | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 silent | cop |
| 4 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 5 silent | advmod |
| 5 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 unable | cc |
| 7 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 silent | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 call | mark |
| 9 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 unable | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 assistance | case |
| 11 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the person | frequently, silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the person not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | call | to-infinitive | the person not said here | for assistance | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for assistance=Recipient |
Option 2
The person is readily identifiable by splashing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 identifiable | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 identifiable | cop |
| 4 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 5 identifiable | advmod |
| 5 | identifiable | identifiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 splashing | mark |
| 7 | splashing | splash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 identifiable | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the person | identifiable, readily property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | splash | gerund | the person not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
The person swims rapidly towards the shore
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swims | nsubj |
| 3 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 3 swims | advmod |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 7 shore | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shore | det |
| 7 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swims | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | present | the person | the shore | rapidly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards shore=Destination |
Option 4
The person invariably screams and waves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screams | compound |
| 3 | invariably | invariably | ADV | _ | 2 person | advmod |
| 4 | screams | scream | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 waves | cc |
| 6 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 screams | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries/e2/