Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★

Grandad: "Back in my day we cooked pasta up a mountain, same ten minutes as at home, no bother." Is that likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: we, that · What happens: cook up, be · To what, where: pasta

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★» 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

Sentence 1: Grandad: "Back in my day we cooked pasta up a mountain, same ten minutes as at home, no bother."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Back	punct
4	Back	back	ADV	_	7 day	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 day	nmod:poss
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grandad	appos
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 cooked	nsubj
9	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 day	acl:relcl
10	pasta	pasta	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cooked	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 cooked	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mountain	det
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cooked	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 minutes	punct
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 minutes	amod
16	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 minutes	nummod
17	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Grandad	appos
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 home	case
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 home	case
20	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 minutes	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bother	punct
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 bother	det
23	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grandad	appos
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 bother	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 bother	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook up in a quote	past	we	pasta				a mountain obl:unmarked	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasta=Product

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.

Sentence 2: Is that likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	cop
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 likely	nsubj
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					likely property	tree rules

The options

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

No, water boils cooler up there, so it takes longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 boils	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boils	nsubj
4	boils	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 boils	xcomp
6	up	up	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 boils	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 takes	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 takes	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 takes	nsubj
11	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boils	conj
12	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 takes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	present	water			there		cool property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	take	present	it					long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

No, pasta can't cook properly above the clouds at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 cook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	pasta	pasta	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cook	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cook	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 cook	advmod
6	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	properly	properly	ADV	_	6 cook	advmod
8	above	above	ADP	_	10 clouds	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 clouds	det
10	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cook	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 cook	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cook	can	pasta			the clouds		at all; properly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Yes, the thin air cooks food much faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 cooks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 air	det
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 air	amod
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cooks	nsubj
6	cooks	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cooks	obj
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 faster	advmod
9	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 cooks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	present	the thin air	food				fast property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 4

Yes, water always boils at 100 °C everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 water	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boils	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 boils	advmod
5	boils	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 100	case
7	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 boils	obl
8	°	°	ADP	_	9 C	case
9	C	C	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boils	obl
10	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 boils	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	present	water			100		° C; always, everywhere property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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