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Test 7 · ★ · Floating and sinking: the push of water

A diver wants to stay still in the middle of the water. What should be true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: diver · What happens: want, stay, be · To what, where: middle

This is test 7 · ★ 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 diver wants to stay still in the middle of the water.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 diver	det
2	diver	diver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stay	mark
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 stay	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a diver						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	a diver not said here			the middle of the water	still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location

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 should be true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 true	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 true	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The diver must weigh nothing in the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 diver	det
2	diver	diver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weigh	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 weigh	aux
4	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 weigh	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weigh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh	must	the diver	nothing		the water			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme nothing=Value

Option 2

The upthrust must be much bigger than the weight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 upthrust	det
2	upthrust	upthrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bigger	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bigger	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 bigger	cop
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 bigger	advmod
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 weight	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 weight	det
9	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	the upthrust					than the weight; big property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The upthrust must equal the diver's weight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 upthrust	det
2	upthrust	upthrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 equal	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 equal	aux
4	equal	equal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 diver	det
6	diver	diver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 weight	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 diver	case
8	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 equal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	equal	must	the upthrust	the diver's weight					tree rules

Option 4

The diver must breathe out all the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 diver	det
2	diver	diver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breathe	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 breathe	aux
4	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 breathe	compound:prt
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 air	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breathe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe out	must	the diver	all air					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme

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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