Test 3 · ★ · Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave

Why can carrying a hot pan across a wet floor be very dangerous?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: carry, be · To what, where: hot pan, wet floor

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 carrying	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carrying	aux
3	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 dangerous	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pan	det
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pan	amod
6	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carrying	obj
7	across	across	ADP	_	10 floor	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 floor	det
9	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 floor	amod
10	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carrying	obl
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 dangerous	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 dangerous	advmod
13	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	can		a hot pan		a wet floor			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pan=Theme
2	is	imperative	you not said here					dangerous property	tree rules

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

Pans slide off wet hands only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slide	nsubj
2	slide	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 hands	case
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hands	amod
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slide	obl
6	only	only	ADV	_	2 slide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide off	present	Pans	wet hands					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Someone could slip and be burnt as well as hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 slip	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 slip	aux
3	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 burnt	cc
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 burnt	aux:pass
6	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 slip	conj
7	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	10 hurt	cc
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 as	fixed
9	as	as	ADP	_	7 as	fixed
10	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 burnt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	slip	could	Someone	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	burnt	infinitive · passive	Someone not said here	tree rules
3	hurt	participle	Someone not said here	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Water makes pans hotter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Water	pans				hot property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pan=Product

Option 4

Wet floors make the pans much heavier to hold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 floors	amod
2	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pans	det
5	pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 heavier	advmod
7	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 make	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hold	mark
9	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 heavier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Wet floors	the pans				heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pan=Product
2	hold	to-infinitive	the pans not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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