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title: Identify the conduct appropriate to a bather who is carried seawards… — Water safety and the ocean · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the conduct appropriate to a bather who is carried seawards by a rip current. Exam question 2 of lesson 13 «Water safety and the ocean» 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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# Exam question 2 · Water safety and the ocean

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Identify the conduct appropriate to a bather who is carried seawards by a rip current.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, rip current · **What happens:** identify, carry · **To what, where:** conduct, bather

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 13 «Water safety and the ocean» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:13-water-safety-and-the-ocean:e2:1
# text = Identify the conduct appropriate to a bather who is carried seawards by a rip current.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bather	bather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	seawards	seaward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	rip	rip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the conduct |  |  |  | appropriate *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | present · passive | a rip current | a bather |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme subject=Beneficiary seaward=Value |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Swimming parallel to the shore, or floating and signalling for assistance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:13-water-safety-and-the-ocean:e2:o1:1
# text = Swimming parallel to the shore, or floating and signalling for assistance
1	Swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	parallel	parallel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	floating	float	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	signalling	signall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | gerund |  | parallel |  |  |  | to the shore | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme parallel=Trajectory |
| 2 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **signall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for assistance | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Descending to the seabed until the current subsides

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:13-water-safety-and-the-ocean:e2:o2:1
# text = Descending to the seabed until the current subsides
1	Descending	descend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	seabed	seabed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	until	until	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	subsides	subside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **descend** | gerund |  |  |  | the seabed | until the current |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to seabed=Location |
| 2 | **subside** | present | Descending |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Removing all clothing so as to diminish weight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:13-water-safety-and-the-ocean:e2:o3:1
# text = Removing all clothing so as to diminish weight
1	Removing	remove	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	diminish	diminish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | gerund |  | all clothing |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothing=Theme |
| 2 | **diminish** | to-infinitive |  | weight |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer weight=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Swimming directly against the current with full exertion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:13-water-safety-and-the-ocean:e2:o4:1
# text = Swimming directly against the current with full exertion
1	Swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	exertion	exertion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | gerund |  |  |  | the current |  | with full exertion; directly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against current=Trajectory |

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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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