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title: Seán: «ah, it's grand, only up to me knees». What can fast water do? — Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lak… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seán: «ah, it's grand, only up to me knees». What can fast water do? Test 8 · ★★ 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 was wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries

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Seán: «ah, it's grand, only up to me knees». What can fast water do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Seán · **What happens:** be, do

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This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Seán: «ah, it's grand, only up to me knees».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t8:1
# text = Seán: «ah, it's grand, only up to me knees».
1	Seán	Seán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	advcl	_	_
14	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Seán |  |  |  |  | grand *property* | tree rules |

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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 can fast water do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t8:2
# text = What can fast water do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | can |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Push him gently back to the bank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t8:o1:1
# text = Push him gently back to the bank
1	Push	push	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push back** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  | the bank |  | gently *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bank=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Carry the ball back to him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t8:o2:1
# text = Carry the ball back to him
1	Carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry back** | imperative | you *not said here* | the ball | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ball=Theme to he=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing below the knee is dangerous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t8:o3:1
# text = Nothing below the knee is dangerous
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
2	below	below	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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

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Knock him over even below the knee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t8:o4:1
# text = Knock him over even below the knee
1	Knock	knock	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	below	below	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock over** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  | the knee |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme below knee=Destination |

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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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