Test 11 · ★★ · Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries
Priya: «bruv, I can't touch the bottom!» and thrashes. What would floating do?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: not touch, thrash, float, do · To what, where: bottom
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 71 «Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries» 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: Priya: «bruv, I can't touch the bottom!» and thrashes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Priya | Priya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 touch | vocative |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 bruv | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 bruv | punct |
| 4 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Priya | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Priya | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 touch | nsubj |
| 7 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 touch | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 touch | advmod |
| 9 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bottom | det |
| 11 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 touch | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 touch | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 touch | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thrashes | cc |
| 15 | thrashes | thrash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 touch | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 touch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch in a quote | can | I | the bottom | Priya vocative | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bottom=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | thrash | present | I not said here | vn spank-18.3 «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.
Sentence 2: What would floating do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | 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 | do | would | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Pull her into a rip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Pull | obj |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 rip | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rip | det |
| 5 | rip | rip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pull | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | imperative | you not said here | her = she | a rip | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Make her sink faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Make | xcomp |
| 4 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 sink | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sink | infinitive | her = she not said here | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Keep her face up while the gasping passes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 face | compound:prt |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 passes | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gasping | det |
| 7 | gasping | gasping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passes | nsubj |
| 8 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 face | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | face up | infinitive | her = she not said here | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pass | present | the gasping | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Make the cold water shock even worse and longer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shock | det |
| 3 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shock | amod |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shock | compound |
| 5 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 worse | advmod |
| 7 | worse | badly | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Make | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 longer | cc |
| 9 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 worse | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | the cold water shock | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shock=Product |
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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