Test 9 · ★ · Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave

Why should small children not run in the kitchen during cooking?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: small children · What happens: not run · To what, where: kitchen

This is test 9 · ★ 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 small	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 small	aux
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 children	amod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 run	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 run	advmod
6	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 kitchen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kitchen	det
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	obl
10	during	during	ADP	_	11 cooking	case
11	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not run	present	small children			the kitchen	during cooking		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Trajectory

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

Children are not allowed in kitchens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 kitchens	case
6	kitchens	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Children		kitchens			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 2

Running uses up the oxygen in the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 uses	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oxygen	det
5	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use up	present		the oxygen		the room			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient

Option 3

Running about makes the food on the hob cook unevenly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 makes	csubj
2	about	about	ADV	_	1 Running	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 food	det
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 hob	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hob	det
8	hob	hob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obl
9	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	conj
10	unevenly	unevenly	ADV	_	9 cook	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run about	gerund				about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present	Running	the food	the hob		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product
3	cook	infinitive	Running not said here			unevenly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Knives, hot pans and slippery floors make falls dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pans	punct
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pans	amod
4	pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Knives	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 floors	cc
6	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 floors	amod
7	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Knives	conj
8	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	obj
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Knives and hot pans and slippery floors	falls				dangerous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material fall=Product

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