Test 2 · Floating and sinking: the push of the water

In the Dead Sea, what can people do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: do · To what, where: Dead Sea

This is test 2 of lesson 11 «Floating and sinking: the push of the water» of the physics 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 Sea	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sea	det
3	Dead	Dead	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Sea	compound
4	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 do	obj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	people			the Dead Sea			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Sink straight down to the bottom like a stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sink	sink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	straight	straight	ADV	_	3 down	advmod
3	down	down	ADV	_	1 Sink	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 bottom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottom	det
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sink	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 stone	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stone	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	imperative	you not said here					to the bottom; like a stone; down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Breathe under the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 water	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Breathe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	imperative	you not said here			the water			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Walk on the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 water	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here			the water			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Float sitting up, reading a newspaper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Float	float	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Float	xcomp
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 sitting	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reading	punct
5	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sitting	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 newspaper	det
7	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reading	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	float	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	sit up	gerund	you not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	read	gerund	you not said here	a newspaper	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=Topic

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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