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Test 5 · ★★ · Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barge…

Portly goes missing and the Otter fears the weir. Why is a weir dangerous for a small swimmer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Portly, Otter, weir · What happens: go, fear, be · To what, where: weir

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 41 «Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat» of the technology 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: Portly goes missing and the Otter fears the weir.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Portly	Portly	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goes	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fears	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Otter	det
6	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fears	nsubj
7	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 weir	det
9	weir	weir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fears	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Portly					missing property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fear	present	the Otter	the weir					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weir=Stimulus

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: Why is a weir dangerous for a small swimmer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 dangerous	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 weir	det
4	weir	weir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dangerous	nsubj
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 swimmer	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 swimmer	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 swimmer	amod
9	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dangerous	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a weir					for a small swimmer; dangerous property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Weirs are electric

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Weirs	weir	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 electric	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 electric	cop
3	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Weirs					electric property	tree rules

Option 2

Weirs suck everything up into the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Weirs	weir	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 suck	nsubj
2	suck	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 suck	obj
4	up	up	ADV	_	2 suck	compound:prt
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 suck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck up	present	Weirs	everything		the air			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The churning water below it can hold a swimmer under

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
2	churning	churning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	compound
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	nsubj
4	below	below	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 water	nmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hold	aux
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 swimmer	det
9	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obj
10	under	under	ADP	_	7 hold	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold under	can	the churning water below it	a swimmer					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=Theme

Option 4

The water above a weir is always boiling hot in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boiling	nsubj
3	above	above	ADP	_	5 weir	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 weir	det
5	weir	weir	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 boiling	aux
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 boiling	advmod
8	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boiling	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 summer	case
11	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	present · progressive	the water above a weir					always, hot property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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