Test 9 · Floating and sinking: the push of the water

Why does a life jacket help even someone who cannot swim?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: life jacket · What happens: help, not swim · To what, where: someone

This is test 9 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 help	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 help	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 jacket	det
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jacket	compound
5	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	nsubj
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 someone	advmod
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 help	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 swim	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 swim	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 swim	advmod
12	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 someone	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present · do-support	a life jacket		someone				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary
2	not swim	can							vn run-51.3.2-1 «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.

The options

Option 1

It teaches you how to swim as you go along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 teaches	nsubj
2	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 teaches	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 swim	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 swim	mark
6	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 teaches	xcomp
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 go	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 swim	advcl
10	along	along	ADV	_	6 swim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present	It	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	swim	to-infinitive			along property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go along	present	you			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It makes the water shallower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	shallower	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the water				shallow property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material water=Product

Option 3

It makes you lighter than air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 air	case
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lighter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	you				light property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product

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

It turns you face up and keeps you afloat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 turns	obj
4	face	face	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 turns	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 face	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 keeps	cc
7	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 turns	conj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 keeps	obj
9	afloat	afloat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It	you		tree rules
2	face up	infinitive				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	keep	present		you	afloat property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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