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description: my mum's friend says a toddler "drowned in a bucket of water in 2 seconds". what's the true bit Test 15 · ★ of lesson 317 «Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, sleep and safe food» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 15 · ★ · Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed,…

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my mum's friend says a toddler "drowned in a bucket of water in 2 seconds". what's the true bit

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** friend · **What happens:** say, drown, be · **To what, where:** toddler, bucket, true bit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 317 «Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, sleep and safe food» 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/317-teeth-baths-showers-sleep-and-safe-food/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:317-teeth-baths-showers-sleep-and-safe-food:t15:1
# text = my mum's friend says a toddler "drowned in a bucket of water in 2 seconds". what's the true bit
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	toddler	toddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my mum's friend | a toddler |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent toddler=Topic |
| 2 | **drown** *in a quote* | participle |  | a toddler *not said here* |  | a bucket of water | second |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the true 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Small children can drown quickly and silently in a little water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:317-teeth-baths-showers-sleep-and-safe-food:t15:o1:1
# text = Small children can drown quickly and silently in a little water
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | can | Small children |  |  | a little water |  | quickly *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only pools are dangerous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:317-teeth-baths-showers-sleep-and-safe-food:t15:o2:1
# text = Only pools are dangerous
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	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 | pools |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Toddlers can't drown in shallow water, coz they just stand up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:317-teeth-baths-showers-sleep-and-safe-food:t15:o3:1
# text = Toddlers can't drown in shallow water, coz they just stand up
1	Toddlers	toddler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	coz	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **drown** | can | Toddlers |  |  | shallow water |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand up** | present | Toddlers *= toddler* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Drowning is always loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:317-teeth-baths-showers-sleep-and-safe-food:t15:o4:1
# text = Drowning is always loud
1	Drowning	drowning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	loud	loud	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 | Drowning |  |  |  |  | always, loud *property* | tree rules |

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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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