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title: Someone in a river shouts for help. Your mate wants to dive in. Best… — Swimming and cycling · tree and pragmatics
description: Someone in a river shouts for help. Your mate wants to dive in. Best plan? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 42 «Swimming and cycling» of the medicine 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 11 · ★ · Swimming and cycling

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Someone in a river shouts for help. Your mate wants to dive in. Best plan?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Someone, mate · **What happens:** shout, want, dive in

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 42 «Swimming and cycling» of the medicine 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/medicine/42-swimming-and-cycling/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Someone in a river shouts for help.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:t11:1
# text = Someone in a river shouts for help.
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Someone |  |  |  |  | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Your mate wants to dive in.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:t11:2
# text = Your mate wants to dive in.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	dive	dive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Your mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **dive in** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Your mate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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*Sentence 3:* Best plan?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:t11:3
# text = Best plan?
1	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Call 999 and throw something that floats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:t11:o1:1
# text = Call 999 and throw something that floats
1	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* | 999 |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 999=Recipient |
| 2 | **throw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 3 | **float** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Wade in up to your waist and grab them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:t11:o2:1
# text = Wade in up to your waist and grab them
1	Wade	Wade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | infinitive |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Go home and say nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:t11:o3:1
# text = Go home and say nothing
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Both of you dive in together to share the weight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:t11:o4:1
# text = Both of you dive in together to share the weight
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	dive	dive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dive** | present | Both |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in together=Attribute |
| 2 | **share** | to-infinitive | Both *not said here* | the weight |  |  |  |  | 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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