Test 14 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

chicken's still a bit pink in the middle but i'm starving

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: starve

This is test 14 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	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pink	nsubj
2	's	's	PART	_	1 chicken	case
3	still	still	ADV	_	6 pink	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pink	obl:unmarked
6	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pink	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 starving	cc
11	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 starving	nsubj
12	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 starving	aux
13	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 pink	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	present · progressive	i						tree rules

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

Eat the outside and leave the pink middle

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	3 outside	det
3	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eat	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 leave	cc
5	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Eat	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
7	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 middle	amod
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	the outside					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outside=Patient
2	leave	infinitive	you not said here	the pink middle					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent middle=Theme

Option 2

Eat it, pink is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pink	compound
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Eat	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Eat	punct
4	pink	pink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fine	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	infinitive		it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	present	Eat pink					fine property	tree rules

Option 3

Add hot sauce, that kills the germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sauce	amod
3	sauce	sauce	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Add	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kills	punct
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 kills	nsubj
6	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sauce	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 germs	det
8	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kills	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	hot sauce					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sauce=Patient
2	kill	present	hot sauce	the germs					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cook it longer until it is cooked right through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Cook	obj
3	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Cook	advmod
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 cooked	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cooked	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cooked	aux:pass
7	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Cook	advcl
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 through	advmod
9	through	through	ADV	_	7 cooked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	imperative	you not said here	it				long property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	cook	present · passive		it				through property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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