Test 9 · ★★ · Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries

Zara: «the lifeguards have gone home, who do I even ring?»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Zara · What happens: go, ring

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zara	Zara	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lifeguards	det
5	lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gone	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 gone	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ring	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 ring	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ring	aux
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 ring	nsubj
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 ring	advmod
14	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gone	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 ring	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 ring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · perfect	Zara					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ring in a quote	present · do-support							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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 council office in the morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 office	det
2	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 office	compound
3	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 morning	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 office	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Nobody, it's too late to do anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 late	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 late	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 late	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 late	advmod
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 late	csubj
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nobody					late property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive		anything					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

Option 3

The lifeguards' home phone number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lifeguards	det
2	lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 number	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 lifeguards	case
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 number	compound
5	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 number	compound
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

999, and ask for the Coastguard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	999	999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 ask	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ask	cc
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 Coastguard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Coastguard	det
7	Coastguard	Coastguard	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	infinitive	999					for the Coastguard	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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