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description: Priya: «bruv, I can't touch the bottom!» and thrashes. What would floating do? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 71 «Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries» 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 
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries

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Priya: «bruv, I can't touch the bottom!» and thrashes. What would floating do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not touch, thrash, float, do · **To what, where:** bottom

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 71 «Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries» 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/71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Priya: «bruv, I can't touch the bottom!» and thrashes.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t11:1
# text = Priya: «bruv, I can't touch the bottom!» and thrashes.
1	Priya	Priya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	thrashes	thrash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** *in a quote* | can | I | the bottom |  |  |  | Priya *vocative* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bottom=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **thrash** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:* What would floating do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t11:2
# text = What would floating do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Pull her into a rip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t11:o1:1
# text = Pull her into a rip
1	Pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rip	rip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  | a rip |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Make her sink faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t11:o2:1
# text = Make her sink faster
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sink** | infinitive | her *= she* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

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Keep her face up while the gasping passes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t11:o3:1
# text = Keep her face up while the gasping passes
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gasping	gasping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **face up** | infinitive | her *= she* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | present | the gasping |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Make the cold water shock even worse and longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t11:o4:1
# text = Make the cold water shock even worse and longer
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	worse	badly	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | the cold water shock |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shock=Product |

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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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