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title: «Can I come in with you? I'm not a wimp». What's true for kids in th… — Ice on ponds and cold water in winter · tree and pragmatics
description: «Can I come in with you? I'm not a wimp». What's true for kids in the January sea? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 74 «Ice on ponds and cold water in winter» 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 7 · ★★ · Ice on ponds and cold water in winter

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«Can I come in with you? I'm not a wimp». What's true for kids in the January sea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** come in, not be, be · **To what, where:** wimp

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 74 «Ice on ponds and cold water in winter» 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/74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Can I come in with you?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter:t7:1
# text = «Can I come in with you?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** *in a quote* | can | I |  |  |  |  | with you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:* I'm not a wimp».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter:t7:2
# text = I'm not a wimp».
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wimp	wimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | I | a wimp |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* What's true for kids in the January sea?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter:t7:3
# text = What's true for kids in the January sea?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for kids in the January sea; true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Being brave keeps you warm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter:t7:o1:1
# text = Being brave keeps you warm
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	csubj	_	_
3	keeps	keep	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	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present |  | you |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Kids lose heat even faster than adults

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter:t7:o2:1
# text = Kids lose heat even faster than adults
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present | Kids | heat |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sea water is warm in winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter:t7:o3:1
# text = Sea water is warm in winter
1	Sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Sea water |  |  |  | winter | warm *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Kids are better at cold water than adults

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter:t7:o4:1
# text = Kids are better at cold water than adults
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Kids |  |  | cold water |  | than adults; good *property* | 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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