Test 6 · ★★ · Cooking is chemistry

Why do microwave instructions say "stir halfway"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: microwave instructions · What happens: do, say, stir · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Cooking is chemistry» of the chemistry 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	advcl
3	microwave	microwave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 instructions	compound
4	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 stir	punct
7	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
8	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	7 stir	advmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 stir	punct
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	present	microwave instructions not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	microwave instructions		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stir in a quote	infinitive		halfway property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

So the hot and cooler parts mix and heat evenly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 hot	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hot	det
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 parts	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cooler	cc
5	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 parts	amod
6	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mix	nsubj
7	mix	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 heat	cc
9	heat	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mix	conj
10	evenly	evenly	ADV	_	9 heat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	present	hot cooler parts						vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	heat	present	hot cooler parts not said here					evenly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

So the microwave has a chance to cool down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 has	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 microwave	det
3	microwave	microwave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chance	det
6	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cool	mark
8	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 chance	acl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 cool	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the microwave	a chance					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
2	cool down	to-infinitive	the microwave not said here	a chance not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

So the bowl stays clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 stays	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bowl	det
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stays	nsubj
4	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stays	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	the bowl					clean property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

So the soup does not go bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soup	det
3	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	present · do-support	the soup					bad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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