Test 3 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

What would most likely happen if someone put a metal spoon in the microwave with their soup?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone · What happens: happen, put · To what, where: metal spoon, microwave

This is test 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 put	mark
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 put	nsubj
8	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spoon	det
10	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spoon	compound
11	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 microwave	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 microwave	det
14	microwave	microwave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 soup	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 soup	nmod:poss
17	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put a condition, not said to happen	past	someone	a metal spoon		the microwave		with their soup	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme in microwave=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

Nothing, metal is fine in microwaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 metal	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fine	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 microwaves	case
7	microwaves	microwave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing metal			microwaves		fine property	tree rules

Option 2

The spoon would make the soup heat faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spoon	det
2	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heat	det
6	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heat	compound
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	the spoon	the soup heat				fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material heat=Product

Option 3

The spoon would keep the soup cool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spoon	det
2	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soup	det
6	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	the spoon	the soup				cool property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sparks could fly and start a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fly	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 start	cc
5	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fly	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	could	Sparks						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	start	infinitive	Sparks not said here	a fire					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality

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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