Test 12 · ★★ · Home alone, keys and garden play

home alone, starving, can i fry eggs

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: home · What happens: starve, fry · To what, where: eggs

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 116 «Home alone, keys and garden play» 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	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fry	nsubj
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 home	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 starving	punct
4	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 home	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fry	punct
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fry	aux
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 fry	nsubj
8	fry	fry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	gerund	home not said here						tree rules
2	fry	can	home	eggs					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, just leave the hob on low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 leave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 leave	advmod
4	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hob	det
6	hob	hob	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 low	case
8	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	the hob		low			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hob=Theme on low=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Eat a cold snack unless you're allowed to cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 snack	det
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snack	amod
4	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eat	obj
5	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	8 allowed	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 allowed	nsubj:pass
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 allowed	aux:pass
8	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Eat	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cook	mark
10	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 allowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	a cold snack	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Patient
2	allow a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		you	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	cook not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Yes, cook whatever you like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 cook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 like	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
6	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cook	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	like	present	you	whatever					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme

Option 4

Use the oven instead, that's safer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 oven	det
3	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Use	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 safer	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 safer	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 safer	cop
8	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Use	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	the oven				instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oven=Patient
2	is	present	that					safe property	tree rules

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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