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title: In the Dead Sea, what can people do? — Floating and sinking: the push of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Dead Sea, what can people do? Test 2 of lesson 11 «Floating and sinking: the push of the water» of the physics 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 2 · Floating and sinking: the push of the water

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In the Dead Sea, what can people do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Dead Sea

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This is test 2 of lesson 11 «Floating and sinking: the push of the water» of the physics 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/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:11-floating-and-sinking:t2:1
# text = In the Dead Sea, what can people do?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Dead	Dead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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

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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 {#o1}

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Sink straight down to the bottom like a stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:11-floating-and-sinking:t2:o1:1
# text = Sink straight down to the bottom like a stone
1	Sink	sink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the bottom; like a stone; down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Breathe under the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:11-floating-and-sinking:t2:o2:1
# text = Breathe under the water
1	Breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Walk on the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:11-floating-and-sinking:t2:o3:1
# text = Walk on the water
1	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Float sitting up, reading a newspaper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:11-floating-and-sinking:t2:o4:1
# text = Float sitting up, reading a newspaper
1	Float	float	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit up** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **read** | gerund | you *not said here* | a newspaper |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=Topic |

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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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