Exam question 3 · Safe in the kitchen

Which of the following temperatures is recommended for a domestic refrigerator?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, recommend

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 recommended	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 temperatures	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 temperatures	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 temperatures	amod
5	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 recommended	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 recommended	aux:pass
7	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 refrigerator	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 refrigerator	det
10	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 refrigerator	amod
11	refrigerator	refrigerator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 recommended	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 recommended	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	recommend	present · passive						of the following temperatures; for a domestic refrigerator	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: which=Theme for refrigerator=Attribute

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

Room temperature, provided the door remains closed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 temperature	compound
2	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 provided	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 temperature	punct
4	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 provided	obj
7	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 closed	aux:pass
8	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 provided	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide	past	Room temperature	the door					tree rules
2	close	present · passive	Room temperature not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Forty degrees Fahrenheit (four degrees Celsius) or colder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 degrees	nummod
2	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	Fahrenheit	Fahrenheit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 degrees	nmod:unmarked
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 degrees	punct
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 degrees	nummod
6	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 degrees	appos
7	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 degrees	nmod:unmarked
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 degrees	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 colder	cc
10	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 degrees	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Sixty degrees Fahrenheit (sixteen degrees Celsius) or warmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 degrees	nummod
2	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	Fahrenheit	Fahrenheit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 degrees	nmod:unmarked
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 degrees	punct
5	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 degrees	nummod
6	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 degrees	appos
7	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 degrees	nmod:unmarked
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 degrees	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 warmer	cc
10	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 degrees	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Zero degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature of a freezer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 degrees	nummod
2	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Fahrenheit	compound
3	Fahrenheit	Fahrenheit	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 temperature	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 temperature	det
6	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Fahrenheit	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 freezer	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 freezer	det
9	freezer	freezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 temperature	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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