Test 10 · ★ · Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, pla…
knife's in the soapy water, gonna fish it out
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: knife, soapy water · What happens: be, fish out · To what, where: soapy water, knife
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 321 «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 water | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 water | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 5 | soapy | soapy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 water | amod |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fish | punct |
| 8 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 fish | dep |
| 9 | fish | fish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 water | acl:relcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fish | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 fish | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | knife | the soapy water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fish out | infinitive | the soapy water not said here | knife | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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
Use your fingertips
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 fingertips | nmod:poss |
| 3 | fingertips | fingertip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Use | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | imperative | you not said here | your fingertips | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fingertip=Patient |
Option 2
Feel around for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | around | around | ADV | _ | 1 Feel | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Feel | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel around | imperative | you not said here | for it; around property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
Option 3
Pull the plug and grab it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 plug | det |
| 3 | plug | plug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pull | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grab | cc |
| 5 | grab | grab | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pull | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grab | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | imperative | you not said here | the plug | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plug=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grab | infinitive | you not said here | plug | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Ask an adult and never reach for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 adult | det |
| 3 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 reach | cc |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 reach | advmod |
| 6 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reach | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | a adult | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not reach | infinitive | you not said here | for adult | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing/t10/