Test 8 · ★ · Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave
A plastic tub with a tight lid swells in the microwave. What is the problem?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: plastic tub, problem · What happens: swell, be
This is test 8 · ★ 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: A plastic tub with a tight lid swells in the microwave.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tub | det |
| 2 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tub | amod |
| 3 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swells | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 lid | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lid | det |
| 6 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lid | amod |
| 7 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tub | nmod |
| 8 | swells | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 microwave | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 microwave | det |
| 11 | microwave | microwave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swells | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 swells | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swell | present | a plastic tub with a tight lid | in the microwave | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in microwave=Attribute |
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 is the problem?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 problem | det |
| 4 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the problem | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Pressure is building and it can burst
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 building | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 building | aux |
| 3 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 burst | cc |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 burst | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 burst | aux |
| 7 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 building | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · progressive | Pressure | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | burst | can | Pressure | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
The microwave is too weak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 microwave | det |
| 2 | microwave | microwave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weak | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 weak | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 weak | advmod |
| 5 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the microwave | weak property | tree rules |
Option 3
The tub is getting colder inside as the food heats up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tub | det |
| 2 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 getting | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 getting | aux |
| 4 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 getting | xcomp |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 4 getting | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 heats | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 food | det |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heats | nsubj |
| 10 | heats | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 getting | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 heats | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · progressive | the tub | cold, inside property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | heat up | present | the food | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
The food is turning into air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 food | det |
| 2 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turning | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 turning | aux |
| 4 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present · progressive | the food | air | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into air=Trajectory |
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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