Test 15 · Safe in the kitchen

pan handle's sticking out over the edge, whatever

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: pan handle · What happens: stick out · To what, where: whatever, edge

This is test 15 of lesson 31 «Safe in the kitchen» 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	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handle	compound
2	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sticking	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sticking	aux
4	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 sticking	compound:prt
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 edge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 edge	det
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sticking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 whatever	punct
10	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sticking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick out	present · progressive	pan handle	whatever		the edge			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme over edge=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

Hang a towel on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 towel	det
3	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hang	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	imperative	you not said here	a towel		towel			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towel=Theme on it=Destination

Option 2

Leave it, it is easier to grab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 easier	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 easier	expl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 easier	cop
6	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Leave	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	8 grab	mark
8	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present			easy property	tree rules
3	grab	to-infinitive				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Turn it in so nobody can knock or grab it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Turn	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	1 Turn	compound:prt
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 knock	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 knock	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 knock	aux
7	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Turn	advcl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 grab	cc
9	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 knock	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	turn in	imperative	you not said here	it	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	knock	can	nobody		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	grab	infinitive	nobody not said here	it	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Turn the heat up so it cooks faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heat	det
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	1 Turn	compound:prt
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 cooks	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cooks	nsubj
7	cooks	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Turn	advcl
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 cooks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	imperative	you not said here	the heat					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heat=Theme
2	cook	present	heat					fast property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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