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title: road's flooded, dad says it's only a bit deep — Rain, floods and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: road's flooded, dad says it's only a bit deep Test 14 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 14 · ★ · Rain, floods and storms

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
road's flooded, dad says it's only a bit deep

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dad, road · **What happens:** flood, say, be · **To what, where:** road, bit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 235 «Rain, floods and storms» 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/235-rain-floods-and-storms/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:t14:1
# text = road's flooded, dad says it's only a bit deep
1	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	flooded	flood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
12	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flood** | participle · passive |  | road |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | road | a bit |  |  |  |  | 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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Wait in the middle till the water goes down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:t14:o1:1
# text = Wait in the middle till the water goes down
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the middle |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location |
| 2 | **go down** | present | the water |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Drive through fast so the water can't stop u

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:t14:o2:1
# text = Drive through fast so the water can't stop u
1	Drive	drive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	through	through	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
4	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
10	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast, through *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **stop** | can | the water | u |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality you=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Turn around, floodwater can sweep the car away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:t14:o3:1
# text = Turn around, floodwater can sweep the car away
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	around	around	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	floodwater	floodwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sweep	sweep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn around** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sweep away** | can | floodwater | the car |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme car=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wade across first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:t14:o4:1
# text = Wade across first
1	Wade	Wade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	across	across	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
```

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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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