Test 11 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

toast stuck, get it with a knife?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: toast · What happens: stick, get · To what, where: toast

This is test 11 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	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stuck	nsubj
2	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stuck	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 knife	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 knife	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 stuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	participle	toast						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	get	infinitive	toast not said here	toast				with a knife	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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, shake it out with a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 shake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shake	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 shake	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 knife	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 knife	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shake	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake out	imperative	you not said here	it				with a knife	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with knife=Co-Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, never poke a knife in a toaster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 poke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 poke	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 poke	advmod
4	poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knife	det
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poke	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 toaster	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 toaster	det
9	toaster	toaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not poke	imperative	you not said here	a knife		a toaster			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent knife=Theme

Option 3

Yes, if it's switched on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 switched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 switched	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 switched	nsubj:pass
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 switched	aux:pass
6	switched	switch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 switched	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch on	present · passive		it					vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Yes, a metal fork is fine to use instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fork	det
4	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fork	compound
5	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fine	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 use	mark
9	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fine	csubj
10	instead	instead	ADV	_	9 use	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a metal fork					fine property	tree rules
2	use	to-infinitive						instead property	vn eat-39.1 «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.

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