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Test 5 · ★ · Floating and sinking: the push of water

A boat sails from a river into the sea. What happens?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boat · What happens: sail, happen · To what, where: river

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 83 «Floating and sinking: the push of water» of the world 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: A boat sails from a river into the sea.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boat	det
2	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sails	nsubj
3	sails	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sails	obl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sails	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sails	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	present	a boat			a river		into the sea	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from river=Trajectory

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: What happens?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It floats a little lower in the salty sea

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 floats	nsubj
2	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lower	obl:unmarked
5	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 floats	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
8	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sea	amod
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	It			the salty sea		low property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory

Option 2

It must take on water to stay balanced

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	3 take	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 take	compound:prt
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stay	mark
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	advcl
8	balanced	balanced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take on	must	It	water					vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	stay	to-infinitive						balanced property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It floats at exactly the same height

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 floats	nsubj
2	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 height	case
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 height	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 height	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 height	amod
7	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	It			the same height			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at height=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It floats a little higher in the salty sea

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 floats	nsubj
2	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 higher	obl:unmarked
5	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 floats	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
8	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sea	amod
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	It			the salty sea			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory

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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