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Test 6 · ★ · Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher

Aria unloads the dishwasher and a knife is point up. What could have happened?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aria · What happens: unload, point up, happen · To what, where: dishwasher, knife

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 107 «Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher» 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: Aria unloads the dishwasher and a knife is point up.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aria	Aria	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 unloads	nsubj
2	unloads	unload	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dishwasher	det
4	dishwasher	dishwasher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 unloads	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 point	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knife	det
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 point	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 point	aux:pass
9	point	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 unloads	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 point	compound:prt
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 unloads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unload	present	Aria	the dishwasher					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent dishwasher=Source
2	point up	present · passive		a knife					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 could have happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

The knife would wash less clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wash	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wash	aux
4	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 wash	obj
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wash	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	would	the knife	less				clean property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She could have been stabbed reaching in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stabbed	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stabbed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 stabbed	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 stabbed	aux:pass
5	stabbed	stab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stabbed	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	6 reaching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	could · perfect · passive		She					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	reach	gerund							vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The knife would fall through the basket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 basket	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 basket	det
7	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	the knife			the basket			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through basket=Location

Option 4

The dishwasher would not start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dishwasher	det
2	dishwasher	dishwasher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 start	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 start	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 start	advmod
5	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not start	would	the dishwasher						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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