Test 5 · ★ · Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave
Jack heats leftovers on a plate with a gold rim and sees sparks. What should he have used?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: heat, see, use · To what, where: leftovers, sparks
This is test 5 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Jack heats leftovers on a plate with a gold rim and sees sparks.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 heats | nsubj |
| 2 | heats | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | leftovers | leftover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 heats | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 plate | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 plate | det |
| 6 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heats | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 rim | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rim | det |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rim | compound |
| 10 | rim | rim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heats | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sees | cc |
| 12 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 heats | conj |
| 13 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sees | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heat | present | Jack | leftovers | with a gold rim; on a plate | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent leftover=Patient on plate=Instrument | |||
| 2 | see | present | Jack not said here | sparks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spark=Stimulus |
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 should he have used?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 used | obl |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 used | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 used | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 used | aux |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 used | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | should · perfect | Jack | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
The same plate covered in foil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 plate | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 plate | amod |
| 3 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 plate | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 foil | case |
| 6 | foil | foil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | the same plate not said here | in foil | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in foil=Theme |
Option 2
A metal tray instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tray | det |
| 2 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tray | compound |
| 3 | tray | tray | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 3 tray | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A metal pan with a lid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pan | det |
| 2 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pan | compound |
| 3 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 lid | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lid | det |
| 6 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pan | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A plain microwave-safe dish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dish | det |
| 2 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dish | amod |
| 3 | microwave | microwave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 safe | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 microwave | punct |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dish | amod |
| 6 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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