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title: river looks deep enough, dive in? — Swimming basics and water confidence · tree and pragmatics
description: river looks deep enough, dive in? Test 13 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Swimming basics and water confidence» 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 13 · ★★ · Swimming basics and water confidence

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river looks deep enough, dive in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** river · **What happens:** look, dive in

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This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Swimming basics and water confidence» 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/7-swimming-and-water/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:7-swimming-and-water:t13:1
# text = river looks deep enough, dive in?
1	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	dive	dive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | river |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **dive in** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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Yes, diving is safest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:7-swimming-and-water:t13:o1:1
# text = Yes, diving is safest
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	diving	diving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | diving |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, if the water looks dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:7-swimming-and-water:t13:o2:1
# text = Yes, if the water looks dark
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | the water |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No, go in feet first, it may be shallow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:7-swimming-and-water:t13:o3:1
# text = No, go in feet first, it may be shallow
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | feet |  | first *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in foot=Location |
| 2 | **is** | may | it |  |  |  |  | shallow *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, if others did it yesterday and were fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:7-swimming-and-water:t13:o4:1
# text = Yes, if others did it yesterday and were fine
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | others | it |  |  | yesterday |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fine *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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