Test 6 · ★ · Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave

What would most likely happen to an egg in its shell in the microwave?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: happen · To what, where: shell

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 egg	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 egg	det
8	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happen	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 shell	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shell	nmod:poss
11	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happen	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 microwave	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 microwave	det
14	microwave	microwave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shell	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				egg's shell in the microwave		to a egg; likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in shell=Location

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

It stays raw inside the shell

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 stays	nsubj
2	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stays	xcomp
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	6 shell	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shell	det
6	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	It			the shell		raw property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside shell=Location

Option 2

It cooks perfectly like a boiled egg

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 cooks	nsubj
2	cooks	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	2 cooks	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 egg	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 egg	det
6	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 egg	amod
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cooks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	present	It					like a boiled egg; perfectly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	boil	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It turns into an omelette

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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 omelette	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 omelette	det
5	omelette	omelette	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It			a omelette			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into omelette=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Steam builds up and it bursts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 builds	nsubj
2	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 builds	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bursts	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bursts	nsubj
6	bursts	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 builds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build up	present	Steam						vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	burst	present	Steam						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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