Test 15 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

gonna microwave my porridge, left the spoon in

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: microwave, leave in · To what, where: porridge, spoon

This is test 15 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	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 microwave	dep
2	microwave	microwave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 left	advcl
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 porridge	nmod:poss
4	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 microwave	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 left	punct
6	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spoon	det
8	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	6 left	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	microwave	infinitive		my porridge					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient
2	leave in	past		the spoon					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme

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

Leave it in, it will heat up faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	1 Leave	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 heat	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heat	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 heat	aux
7	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 heat	compound:prt
9	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 heat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave in	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	heat up	future	it					fast property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Use a fork instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fork	det
3	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Use	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a fork				instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fork=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Take the metal spoon out first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spoon	det
3	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoon	compound
4	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
5	out	out	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	the metal spoon				first, out property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme

Option 4

Just cover it with a plate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 cover	advmod
2	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cover	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 plate	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plate	det
6	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cover	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	imperative	you not said here	it				with a plate	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with plate=Theme

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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