Test 9 · ★ · Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, pla…

gonna pour hot water from the kettle for mums tea

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: pour · To what, where: hot water, kettle

This is test 9 · ★ 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	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 pour	dep
2	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pour	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 kettle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kettle	det
7	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pour	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 tea	case
9	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tea	compound
10	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pour	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	imperative	you not said here	hot water		the kettle		for mums tea	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent water=Patient for tea=Beneficiary

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

Fill it right to the top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fill	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Fill	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 top	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 top	det
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	imperative	you not said here	it				to the top; right property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Pour it fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pour	obj
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Pour	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	imperative	you not said here	it				fast property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ask an adult to pour 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	to	to	PART	_	5 pour	mark
5	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pour	obj

#	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 whether S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
2	pour not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	adult					vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Use both hands and look away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 hands	det
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Use	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 look	cc
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Use	conj
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	both hands					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	look away	infinitive	you not said here					away property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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