--- title: On a hot day, Noah jumps straight into a cold river and gasps. Why i… — Swimming basics and water confidence · tree and pragmatics description: On a hot day, Noah jumps straight into a cold river and gasps. Why is this dangerous? Test 8 · ★★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/7-swimming-and-water/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Swimming basics and water confidence](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/7-swimming-and-water/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★★ · Swimming basics and water confidence On a hot day, Noah jumps straight into a cold river and gasps. Why is this dangerous? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Noah, this · **What happens:** jump, gasp, be · **To what, where:** cold river This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* On a hot day, Noah jumps straight into a cold river and gasps. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:7-swimming-and-water:t8:1 # text = On a hot day, Noah jumps straight into a cold river and gasps. 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 jumps jump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 straight straight ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 gasps gasp VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump** | present | Noah | | | | day | into a cold river *result*; straight *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into river=Result | | 2 | **gasp** | present | Noah *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. *Sentence 2:* Why is this dangerous? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:7-swimming-and-water:t8:2 # text = Why is this dangerous? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 4 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | this | | | | | dangerous *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Cold water makes you float higher ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:7-swimming-and-water:t8:o1:1 # text = Cold water makes you float higher 1 Cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 higher high ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Cold water | you | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **float** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} A gasp underwater can make you breathe in water ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:7-swimming-and-water:t8:o2:1 # text = A gasp underwater can make you breathe in water 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 gasp gasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 underwater underwater NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | can | a gasp underwater | you | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **breathe** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | water | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} It is not dangerous at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:7-swimming-and-water:t8:o3:1 # text = It is not dangerous at all 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | It | | | all | | dangerous *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Gasping makes you swim faster ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:7-swimming-and-water:t8:o4:1 # text = Gasping makes you swim faster 1 Gasping gasping NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Gasping | you | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **swim** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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