Exam question 2 · Water safety and the ocean

Identify the conduct appropriate to a bather who is carried seawards by a rip current.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, rip current · What happens: identify, carry · To what, where: conduct, bather

This is exam question 2 of lesson 13 «Water safety and the ocean» of the physics 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 conduct	det
3	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Identify	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 bather	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bather	det
7	bather	bather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appropriate	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 carried	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 carried	aux:pass
10	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bather	acl:relcl
11	seawards	seaward	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 carried	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 current	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 current	det
14	rip	rip	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 current	compound
15	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the conduct				appropriate property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme
2	carry	present · passive	a rip current	a bather					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme subject=Beneficiary seaward=Value

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

Swimming parallel to the shore, or floating and signalling for assistance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	parallel	parallel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swimming	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 shore	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shore	det
5	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swimming	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 floating	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 floating	cc
8	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Swimming	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 signalling	cc
10	signalling	signall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Swimming	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 assistance	case
12	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 signalling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swim	gerund	parallel	to the shore	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme parallel=Trajectory
2	float	gerund			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	signall	gerund		for assistance	tree rules

Option 2

Descending to the seabed until the current subsides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Descending	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 subsides	csubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 seabed	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seabed	det
4	seabed	seabed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Descending	obl
5	until	until	ADP	_	7 current	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 current	det
7	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Descending	obl
8	subsides	subside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	descend	gerund				the seabed	until the current		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to seabed=Location
2	subside	present	Descending						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Removing all clothing so as to diminish weight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Removing	remove	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 clothing	det
3	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Removing	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	1 Removing	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 diminish	mark
6	to	to	PART	_	7 diminish	mark
7	diminish	diminish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Removing	advcl
8	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 diminish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	gerund		all clothing					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothing=Theme
2	diminish	to-infinitive		weight					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer weight=Patient

Option 4

Swimming directly against the current with full exertion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	directly	directly	ADV	_	1 Swimming	advmod
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 current	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 current	det
5	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swimming	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 exertion	case
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 exertion	amod
8	exertion	exertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swimming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	gerund				the current		with full exertion; directly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against current=Trajectory

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