Test 2 · Safe in the kitchen

Which of these is true about a fridge?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 true	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 true	mark
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 true	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 fridge	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fridge	det
8	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 true	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about a fridge; true property	tree rules

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

It kills germs within a few hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kills	nsubj
2	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kills	obj
4	within	within	ADP	_	7 hours	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hours	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hours	amod
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kills	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	It	germs			hour		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 2

Food in it stays safe forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stays	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Food	nmod
4	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stays	xcomp
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 stays	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	Food in it					forever, safe property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It makes food fresher than the day it was bought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
4	fresher	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fresher	obl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bought	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bought	aux:pass
10	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 day	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	food				fresh property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material food=Product
2	buy	past · passive	the day not said here	food					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Food in it can still go bad, only more slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Food	nmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 slowly	advmod
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	can	Food in it				still	bad, slowly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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