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title: Which is true about floodwater? — Rain, floods and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about floodwater? Test 2 · ★ 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 2 · ★ · Rain, floods and storms

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Which is true about floodwater?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:t2:1
# text = Which is true about floodwater?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	floodwater	floodwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about floodwater; true *property* | 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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Floodwater is clean, because it is rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:t2:o1:1
# text = Floodwater is clean, because it is rain
1	Floodwater	floodwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Floodwater |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | because rain | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only deep water over your head is dangerous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:t2:o2:1
# text = Only deep water over your head is dangerous
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	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 | deep water over your head |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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

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Even shallow moving water can knock you down or float a car

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:t2:o3:1
# text = Even shallow moving water can knock you down or float a car
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **knock down** | can | shallow moving water | you |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 3 | **float** | infinitive | shallow moving water *not said here* | a car |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cars are heavy enough to drive safely through any flood they meet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:t2:o4:1
# text = Cars are heavy enough to drive safely through any flood they meet
1	Cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Cars |  |  |  |  | enough, heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drive** | to-infinitive | Cars *not said here* |  |  | any flood |  | safely *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through flood=Trajectory |
| 3 | **meet** | present | Cars *= car* | any flood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flood=Co-Agent |

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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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