Test 12 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

microwaved my beans, some bits hot some cold

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: microwave

This is test 12 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	microwaved	microwave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 beans	amod
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 beans	nmod:poss
3	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bits	punct
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 bits	det
6	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 beans	conj
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beans	conj
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 cold	det
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	microwave	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

That means they're cooked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cooked	nsubj:pass
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cooked	aux:pass
5	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	That						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cook	present · passive		they					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stir them, there can be hot spots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stir	stir	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stir	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 be	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 be	expl
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stir	advcl
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spots	amod
8	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 be	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stir	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 3

Heat them more without stirring them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heat	heat	VERB	Number=Sing	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Heat	obj
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Heat	advmod
4	without	without	SCONJ	_	5 stirring	mark
5	stirring	stir	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Heat	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stirring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	stir	gerund	you not said here	them = they					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 4

Eat the cold bits first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bits	det
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bits	amod
4	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Eat	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	the cold bits				first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=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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