Test 11 · ★ · Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave

can i do a boiled egg in the microwave, shell n all

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: i · What happens: do, boil · To what, where: boiled egg, microwave

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 106 «Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave» 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	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 do	aux
2	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 egg	det
5	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 egg	amod
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 microwave	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 microwave	det
9	microwave	microwave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 egg	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shell	punct
11	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 egg	conj
12	n	not	ADV	_	13 all	advmod
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	i	a boiled egg and shell		the microwave			tree rules
2	boil	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Yes, if you cover it with foil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 cover	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cover	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 cover	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 cover	nsubj
5	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cover	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 foil	case
8	foil	foil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cover	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present	you	it				with foil	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with foil=Theme

Option 2

Yes, if you do it on high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 do	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 high	case
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	you	it		high			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, a whole egg in its shell explodes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 explodes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 egg	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 egg	amod
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 explodes	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 shell	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shell	nmod:poss
8	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 egg	nmod
9	explodes	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explode	present	a whole egg in egg's shell						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, two minutes on full power is perfect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 minutes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 minutes	nummod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 perfect	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 power	case
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 power	amod
7	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 minutes	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 perfect	cop
9	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	two minutes on full power					perfect property	tree rules

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