Test 10 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast
can i heat this in foil in the microwave
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: i · What happens: heat · To what, where: this
This is test 10 of lesson 38 «Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast» 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 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 heat | aux |
| 2 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 heat | nsubj |
| 3 | heat | heat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heat | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 foil | case |
| 6 | foil | foil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heat | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 microwave | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 microwave | det |
| 9 | microwave | microwave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heat | can | i | this | in the microwave; in foil | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent this=Patient in foil=Instrument |
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
Yes, foil keeps it warm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 keeps | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | foil | foil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keeps | obj |
| 6 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keeps | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | foil | it | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, metal must never go in a microwave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 go | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 go | advmod |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 microwave | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 microwave | det |
| 9 | microwave | microwave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | must | metal | a microwave | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in microwave=Location |
Option 3
Yes, for one minute only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 minute | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 minute | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 minute | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 minute | nummod |
| 5 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 minute | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yes, if it's thin foil and you fold it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 foil | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 foil | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 foil | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 foil | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 foil | cop |
| 6 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 foil | amod |
| 7 | foil | foil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fold | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 fold | nsubj |
| 10 | fold | fold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 foil | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fold | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | thin foil | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fold | present | you | foil | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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