--- title: Why do many children drown with people nearby? — Safe at lakes and beaches · tree and pragmatics description: Why do many children drown with people nearby? Test 16 · ★★ of lesson 232 «Safe at lakes and beaches» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/232-lakes-and-beaches/t16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Safe at lakes and beaches](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/232-lakes-and-beaches/) / t16 # Test 16 · ★★ · Safe at lakes and beaches Why do many children drown with people nearby? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many children · **What happens:** drown This is test 16 · ★★ of lesson 232 «Safe at lakes and beaches» 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/232-lakes-and-beaches/#t16). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:232-lakes-and-beaches:t16:1 # text = Why do many children drown with people nearby? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 drown drown VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 nearby nearby ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drown** | present · do-support | many children | | | | | with people; nearby *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with people=Instrument | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Children only ever drown in very deep water far away from people ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:232-lakes-and-beaches:t16:o1:1 # text = Children only ever drown in very deep water far away from people 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 4 advmod _ _ 4 drown drown VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drown** | infinitive | Children | | | deep water | ever | away *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Drowning is quick and silent, with no shouting or waving ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:232-lakes-and-beaches:t16:o2:1 # text = Drowning is quick and silent, with no shouting or waving 1 Drowning drowning NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 shouting shouting NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 waving wave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Drowning | | | | | quick *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Drowning *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wave** | gerund | Drowning *not said here* | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} It only happens when the lifeguard is on a break ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:232-lakes-and-beaches:t16:o3:1 # text = It only happens when the lifeguard is on a break 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 lifeguard lifeguard NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 break break NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | present | It | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | the lifeguard | | | a break | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Drowning children always splash and scream loudly for help ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:232-lakes-and-beaches:t16:o4:1 # text = Drowning children always splash and scream loudly for help 1 Drowning drown VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 4 advmod _ _ 4 splash splash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 scream scream VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drown** | gerund | | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **splash** | present | Drowning children | | | | | for help; always *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | present | Drowning children *not said here* | | | | | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | **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. 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