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title: Zara: «the lifeguards have gone home, who do I even ring?» — Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lak… · tree and pragmatics
description: Zara: «the lifeguards have gone home, who do I even ring?» Test 9 · ★★ 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 9 · ★★ · Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries

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Zara: «the lifeguards have gone home, who do I even ring?»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Zara · **What happens:** go, ring

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t9:1
# text = Zara: «the lifeguards have gone home, who do I even ring?»
1	Zara	Zara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	ring	ring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Zara |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ring** *in a quote* | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The council office in the morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t9:o1:1
# text = The council office in the morning
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nobody, it's too late to do anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t9:o2:1
# text = Nobody, it's too late to do anything
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	csubj	_	_
9	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nobody |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The lifeguards' home phone number

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t9:o3:1
# text = The lifeguards' home phone number
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
999, and ask for the Coastguard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries:t9:o4:1
# text = 999, and ask for the Coastguard
1	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Coastguard	Coastguard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | 999 |  |  |  |  | for the Coastguard | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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