Test 16 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

cut raw chicken on the board, now gonna chop the salad on it

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: cut, chop · To what, where: raw chicken, board, salad

This is test 16 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	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chicken	amod
3	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cut	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 board	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 board	det
6	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cut	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chop	punct
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 chop	advmod
9	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	10 chop	dep
10	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 cut	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 salad	det
12	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chop	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here	raw chicken		the board			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chicken=Product
2	chop	infinitive	you not said here	the salad		salad	now		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent salad=Patient on it=Location

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

Just chop the salad quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 chop	advmod
2	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 salad	det
4	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chop	obj
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 chop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	imperative	you not said here	the salad				quickly property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salad=Patient

Option 2

Turn the board over and use the other side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 board	det
3	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	1 Turn	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 use	cc
6	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Turn	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 side	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 side	amod
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn over	imperative	you not said here	the board					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent board=Theme
2	use	present	you not said here	the other side					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient

Option 3

Wipe it with a dry cloth first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wipe	wipe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wipe	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 cloth	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloth	det
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cloth	amod
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wipe	obl
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Wipe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe	imperative	you not said here	it				with a dry cloth; first property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Wash the board well or use another one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 board	det
3	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wash	obj
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Wash	advmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 use	cc
6	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wash	conj
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	the board				well property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Patient
2	use	infinitive	you not said here	another one					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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