Exam question 1 · Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors

Identify the action required before anything is placed inside a blender.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, require, place · To what, where: action, anything, blender

This is exam question 1 of lesson 217 «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 action	det
3	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 action	acl
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 placed	mark
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 placed	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 placed	aux:pass
8	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 required	advcl
9	inside	inside	ADP	_	11 blender	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 blender	det
11	blender	blender	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the action		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent action=Theme
2	require	participle		the action not said here		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	place	present · passive		anything	a blender	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme inside blender=Destination

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

It is filled with water to the brim

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	3 filled	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 filled	aux:pass
3	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 filled	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 brim	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brim	det
8	brim	brim	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 filled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	present · passive		It				with water; to the brim	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with water=Instrument

Option 2

It is tilted so as to drain it fully

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	3 tilted	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tilted	aux:pass
3	tilted	tilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 tilted	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 drain	mark
6	to	to	PART	_	7 drain	mark
7	drain	drain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tilted	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drain	obj
9	fully	fully	ADV	_	7 drain	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tilt	present · passive		It					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	drain	to-infinitive		it				fully property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is switched off and unplugged

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	3 switched	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 switched	aux:pass
3	switched	switch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 switched	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 unplugged	cc
6	unplugged	unplug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 switched	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch off	present · passive		It					vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	unplug	participle							tree rules

Option 4

It is set to the slowest speed available

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	3 set	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 set	aux:pass
3	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 speed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 speed	det
6	slowest	slow	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 speed	amod
7	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
8	available	available	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 speed	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	present · passive		It				to the slowest speed	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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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