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title: apparently the river looked totally calm but a kid swimming got pull… — Campfires, cold nights and rivers · tree and pragmatics
description: apparently the river looked totally calm but a kid swimming got pulled away round the bend, they found him miles down. what's the true lesson? Test 17 · ★ of lesson 231 «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 17 · ★ · Campfires, cold nights and rivers

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apparently the river looked totally calm but a kid swimming got pulled away round the bend, they found him miles down. what's the true lesson?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** river, they · **What happens:** look, pull away, find, be · **To what, where:** kid swimming, river, true lesson

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This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 231 «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/231-campfires-and-rivers/#t17).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:231-campfires-and-rivers:t17:1
# text = apparently the river looked totally calm but a kid swimming got pulled away round the bend, they found him miles down. what's the true lesson?
1	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
5	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	round	round	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bend	bend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the river |  |  |  |  | apparently, calm *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pull away** | past · passive |  | a kid swimming |  |  |  | round the bend; away *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | past | they | river |  |  |  | down *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | the true lesson |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Only rough water is dangerous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:231-campfires-and-rivers:t17:o1:1
# text = Only rough water is dangerous
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | rough water |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Swimming against it always works

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:231-campfires-and-rivers:t17:o2:1
# text = Swimming against it always works
1	Swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	against	against	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | Swimming against it |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Calm rivers are always safe to swim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:231-campfires-and-rivers:t17:o3:1
# text = Calm rivers are always safe to swim
1	Calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Calm rivers |  |  |  |  | always, safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **swim** | to-infinitive | Calm rivers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Calm-looking water can still move fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:231-campfires-and-rivers:t17:o4:1
# text = Calm-looking water can still move fast
1	Calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **move** | can | looking water |  |  |  | still | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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**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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