Test 10 · ★ · Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on b…

blender's jammed, ill poke it with a spoon

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ill · What happens: jam, poke · To what, where: blender

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 294 «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» 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	blender	blender	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jammed	nsubj:pass
2	's	's	PART	_	1 blender	case
3	jammed	jam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 poke	punct
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 poke	nsubj
6	poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 jammed	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 poke	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 spoon	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 spoon	det
10	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jam	participle · passive		blender					vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination
2	poke	present	ill	blender				with a spoon	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with spoon=Instrument

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

Poke it while it runs to free it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Poke	obj
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 runs	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 runs	nsubj
5	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Poke	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 free	mark
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 runs	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Poke	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	1 Poke	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke up	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	run	present	it					free property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Use your fingers, they're much gentler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 fingers	nmod:poss
3	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Use	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gentler	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gentler	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gentler	cop
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 gentler	advmod
8	gentler	gentle	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	your fingers					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient
2	is	present	fingers = finger					gentle property	tree rules

Option 3

Shake it upside down while it's on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shake	obj
3	upside	upside	ADV	_	1 Shake	advmod
4	down	down	ADV	_	1 Shake	advmod
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 on	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 on	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 on	cop
8	on	on	ADV	_	1 Shake	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake down	imperative	you not said here	it				down, upside property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	present	it					on property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Switch it off and unplug it first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Switch	switch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Switch	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Switch	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 unplug	cc
5	unplug	unplug	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Switch	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 unplug	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 unplug	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch off	imperative	you not said here	it					vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	unplug	infinitive	you not said here	it				first 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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