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title: Ascertain the place where most drownings of young children occur. — The sea, waves and swimming pools · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the place where most drownings of young children occur. Exam question 4 of lesson 233 «The sea, waves and swimming pools» 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.
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# Exam question 4 · The sea, waves and swimming pools

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Ascertain the place where most drownings of young children occur.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, most drownings · **What happens:** ascertain, occur · **To what, where:** place

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 233 «The sea, waves and swimming pools» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/233-sea-and-pools/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:233-sea-and-pools:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the place where most drownings of young children occur.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	drownings	drowning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	occur	occur	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the place |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 2 | **occur** | present | most drownings of young children |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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In public fountains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:233-sea-and-pools:e4:o1:1
# text = In public fountains
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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In bathtubs at school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:233-sea-and-pools:e4:o2:1
# text = In bathtubs at school
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	bathtubs	bathtub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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In deep oceans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:233-sea-and-pools:e4:o3:1
# text = In deep oceans
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	oceans	ocean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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In home swimming pools

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:233-sea-and-pools:e4:o4:1
# text = In home swimming pools
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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