Test 3 · ★ · Knives, kitchen tools and cooking
Zoe's spoon gets stuck in the plugged-in blender. What must happen first?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spoon · What happens: get, plug, happen
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 105 «Knives, kitchen tools and cooking» of the everyday 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: Zoe's spoon gets stuck in the plugged-in blender.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zoe | Zoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoon | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Zoe | case |
| 3 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gets | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 blender | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 blender | det |
| 8 | plugged | plug | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 blender | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 plugged | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 blender | case |
| 11 | blender | blender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stuck | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Zoe's spoon | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | plug | participle | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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: What must happen first?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 happen | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | must | first property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
She pulls the spoon out quickly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pulls | nsubj |
| 2 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spoon | det |
| 4 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pulls | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 pulls | compound:prt |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 pulls | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | present | She | the spoon | quickly property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The blender is switched off and unplugged
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 blender | det |
| 2 | blender | blender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 switched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 switched | aux:pass |
| 4 | switched | switch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 switched | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 unplugged | cc |
| 7 | unplugged | unplug | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 switched | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | switch off | present · passive | the blender | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | unplug | participle | tree rules |
Option 3
She shakes the whole blender hard to get it loose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shakes | nsubj |
| 2 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blender | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blender | amod |
| 5 | blender | blender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shakes | obj |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shakes | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hard | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 get | obj |
| 10 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | present | She | the whole blender | hard property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent blender=Patient | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | She not said here | blender | loose property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 4
She turns the blender on to free it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turns | nsubj |
| 2 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blender | det |
| 4 | blender | blender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 free | case |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 free | mark |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 turns | parataxis |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 free | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | She | the blender | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blender=Theme |
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