Test 17 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

did u hear the Johnsons' microwave blew up cos their kid put a spoon in it, sparks everywhere

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, microwave, kid · What happens: hear, blow up, put · To what, where: Johnsons, spoon, microwave

This is test 17 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Johnsons	det
5	Johnsons	johnson	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hear	obj
6	'	's	PART	_	5 Johnsons	case
7	microwave	microwave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blew	nsubj
8	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Johnsons	acl:relcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 blew	compound:prt
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	13 put	mark
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 kid	nmod:poss
12	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	nsubj
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 blew	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 spoon	det
15	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sparks	punct
19	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Johnsons	conj
20	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 hear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	the Johnsons and sparks		everywhere property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer johnson=Stimulus
2	blow up	past	microwave	the Johnsons and sparks not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent johnson=Patient
3	put	past	Johnsons's kid	a spoon	microwave		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme in it=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

Real lesson: never put metal in a microwave; «blew up» is probably exaggerated

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	amod
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 exaggerated	nsubj:pass
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 put	advmod
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 lesson	appos
6	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 microwave	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 microwave	det
9	microwave	microwave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 blew	punct
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 blew	punct
12	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	parataxis
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 blew	compound:prt
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 blew	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 exaggerated	aux:pass
16	probably	probably	ADV	_	17 exaggerated	advmod
17	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not put	infinitive	metal	a microwave		tree rules
2	blow up in a quote	past				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	exaggerate	present · passive	Real lesson		probably property	tree rules

Option 2

Real lesson: microwaves blow up on their own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	amod
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blow	obj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 blow	punct
4	microwaves	microwave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blow	nsubj
5	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 blow	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 own	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 own	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow up	present	microwaves	Real lesson		microwaves's own			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent lesson=Patient

Option 3

It proves only spoons cause problems

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 spoons	advmod
4	spoons	spoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cause	nsubj
5	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 proves	ccomp
6	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	cause	present	spoons	problems					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition problem=Patient

Option 4

It is gossip, so metal in microwaves is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gossip	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gossip	cop
3	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	10 fine	advmod
6	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fine	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 microwaves	case
8	microwaves	microwave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 metal	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gossip	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	gossip					tree rules
2	is	present	metal in microwaves	gossip not said here				fine property	tree rules

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