--- title: Identify the depth of moving water that may suffice to cause a car t… — Rain, floods and storms · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the depth of moving water that may suffice to cause a car to float. Exam question 1 of lesson 235 «Rain, floods and storms» 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/235-rain-floods-and-storms/e1/) [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/) / [Rain, floods and storms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/235-rain-floods-and-storms/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Rain, floods and storms Identify the depth of moving water that may suffice to cause a car to float. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, moving water · **What happens:** identify, move, suffice, cause, float · **To what, where:** depth, car This is exam question 1 of lesson 235 «Rain, floods and storms» 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/235-rain-floods-and-storms/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:e1:1 # text = Identify the depth of moving water that may suffice to cause a car to float. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 depth depth NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 amod _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 8 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 suffice suffice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the depth of moving water | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent depth=Theme | | 2 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **suffice** | may | moving water | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **cause** | to-infinitive | moving water *not said here* | a car | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition car=Patient | | 5 | **float** | to-infinitive | moving water *not said here* | a car *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} About one centimetre ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:e1:o1:1 # text = About one centimetre 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 centimetre centimetre NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} About three metres ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:e1:o2:1 # text = About three metres 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} About thirty centimetres ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:e1:o3:1 # text = About thirty centimetres 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} About ten metres ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:e1:o4:1 # text = About ten metres 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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