Exam question 1 · Safe in the kitchen

Identify the principal reason for which oven mitts must be dry when used.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, oven mitts · What happens: identify, be, use · To what, where: principal reason

This is exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Safe in the kitchen» 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	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 dry	obl
7	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mitts	compound
8	mitts	mitt	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dry	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 dry	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 dry	cop
11	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	acl
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 used	mark
13	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 dry	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	is	must	oven mitts		for the principal reason; dry property	tree rules
3	use	participle	oven mitts not said here			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Wet mitts slip off the hands more readily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mitts	amod
2	mitts	mitt	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slip	nsubj
3	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hands	det
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slip	obl
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 readily	advmod
8	readily	readily	ADV	_	3 slip	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip off	present	Wet mitts	the hands				readily property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 2

Wet mitts cause the oven to cool too quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mitts	amod
2	mitts	mitt	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cause	nsubj
3	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oven	det
5	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cause	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cool	mark
7	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cause	advcl
8	too	too	ADV	_	7 cool	advmod
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 cool	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Wet mitts	the oven					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition oven=Patient
2	cool	to-infinitive	Wet mitts not said here					quickly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Heat passes rapidly through wet cloth and may burn the hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passes	nsubj
2	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	2 passes	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 cloth	case
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cloth	amod
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passes	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 burn	cc
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 burn	aux
9	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 passes	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hand	det
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present	Heat			wet cloth		rapidly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through cloth=Location
2	burn	may	Heat not said here	the hand					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

Option 4

Dry mitts are more easily washed afterwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mitts	amod
2	mitts	mitt	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 washed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 washed	aux:pass
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 easily	advmod
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	6 washed	advmod
6	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	6 washed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present · passive		Dry mitts				afterwards, easily property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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