Test 7 · ★ · Knives, kitchen tools and cooking

Why is it a bad idea to put the tasting spoon back in the pot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, put · To what, where: bad idea, tasting spoon, pot

This is test 7 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 idea	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 idea	expl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 put	mark
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 idea	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spoon	det
10	tasting	tasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spoon	compound
11	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	8 put	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pot	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pot	det
15	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 idea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a bad idea					tree rules
2	put	to-infinitive		the tasting spoon		the pot			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme in pot=Destination

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

It makes all the food in the pot taste far too salty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 food	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 food	det
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 taste	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 taste	det
8	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taste	compound
9	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 salty	advmod
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 salty	advmod
12	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	all food		the pot taste			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material food=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Germs from your mouth spread to everyone's food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spread	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 mouth	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mouth	nmod:poss
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Germs	nmod
5	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 food	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 food	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 everyone	case
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	participle	Germs from your mouth					to everyone's food	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The spoon will melt in the pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spoon	det
2	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melt	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 melt	aux
4	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pot	det
7	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	future	the spoon			the pot			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It cools down the whole pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cools	nsubj
2	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	6 pot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pot	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pot	amod
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cools	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool down	present	It	the whole pot					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient

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