Arising out of this ticket:
http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/488/
and out of the consequent discussion at the FTF in Oxford in 2014, it seems clear that <surfaceGrp> should not be a member of att.coordinated. It's simply a grouping element for <surface> elements. I think this is a corrigible error.
I agree, and have taken the liberty of correcting it at rev 13014