Test 14 · ★ · Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on b…

blenders stuck, just poke it with a spoon real quick

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: poke · To what, where: it

This is test 14 · ★ 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	blenders	blender	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stuck	nsubj
2	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 poke	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 poke	advmod
5	poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 stuck	parataxis
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poke	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 spoon	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 spoon	det
9	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poke	obl
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 quick	amod
11	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 poke	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	infinitive		it				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

Shake the blender upside down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 upside	det
3	blender	blender	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 upside	compound
4	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shake	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	1 Shake	advmod

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

Option 2

Poke it while it's running

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	_	6 running	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 running	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 running	aux
6	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Poke	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	imperative	you not said here	it					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	run	present · progressive	it						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Poke it with your finger

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	with	with	ADP	_	5 finger	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 finger	nmod:poss
5	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	imperative	you not said here	it				with your finger	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=Instrument

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Switch 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	off	off	ADP	_	1 Switch	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 unplug	cc
4	unplug	unplug	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Switch	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unplug	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 unplug	advmod

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