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title: Why might a boy who swims well in a warm pool get into trouble in a… — Pools, lakes and ice · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a boy who swims well in a warm pool get into trouble in a cold mountain lake? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 45 «Pools, lakes and ice» 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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# Test 8 · ★★ · Pools, lakes and ice

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Why might a boy who swims well in a warm pool get into trouble in a cold mountain lake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** swim, get · **To what, where:** warm pool, trouble

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 45 «Pools, lakes and ice» 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/45-pools-lakes-and-ice/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:45-pools-lakes-and-ice:t8:1
# text = Why might a boy who swims well in a warm pool get into trouble in a cold mountain lake?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	swims	swim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | present | a boy |  |  | a warm pool |  | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Trajectory |
| 2 | **get** | might | a boy |  |  | trouble |  | in a cold mountain lake | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination |

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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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He cannot see under the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:45-pools-lakes-and-ice:t8:o1:1
# text = He cannot see under the water
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	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 | **not** **see** | can | He |  |  | the water |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Lake water does not hold up swimmers the way pool water does

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:45-pools-lakes-and-ice:t8:o2:1
# text = Lake water does not hold up swimmers the way pool water does
1	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hold up** | present · do-support | Lake water | swimmers |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot swimmer=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | the pool water |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mountain lakes have no bottom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:45-pools-lakes-and-ice:t8:o3:1
# text = Mountain lakes have no bottom
1	Mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Mountain lakes | no bottom |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The cold water can shock him and tire him quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:45-pools-lakes-and-ice:t8:o4:1
# text = The cold water can shock him and tire him quickly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	shock	shock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tire	tire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shock** | can | the cold water | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 2 | **tire** | infinitive | the cold water *not said here* | water |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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