Test 4 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

Which statement is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statement · What happens: be

This is test 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which statement					true property	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

A toaster is safe to poke once it is cool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 toaster	det
2	toaster	toaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 safe	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	cop
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 poke	mark
6	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 safe	xcomp
7	once	once	SCONJ	_	10 cool	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cool	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cool	cop
10	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 poke	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	a toaster	safe property	tree rules
2	poke	to-infinitive	a toaster not said here		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	toaster	cool property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A toaster can still give a shock if you poke metal into it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 toaster	det
2	toaster	toaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 give	advmod
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shock	det
7	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 poke	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 poke	nsubj
10	poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	advcl
11	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 poke	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 poke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	can	a toaster	a shock			still		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Theme
2	poke a condition, not said to happen	present	you	metal				into toaster	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent metal=Instrument into it=Patient

Option 3

Toasters cannot conduct electricity at all, they are plastic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toasters	toaster	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 conduct	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 conduct	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 conduct	advmod
4	conduct	conduct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conduct	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 conduct	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 plastic	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 plastic	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 plastic	cop
11	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 conduct	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not conduct	can	Toasters	electricity		all			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme at all=Destination
2	is	present	Toasters = toaster					plastic property	tree rules

Option 4

Only the outside of a toaster is dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 outside	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 outside	det
3	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dangerous	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 toaster	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 toaster	det
6	toaster	toaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outside	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dangerous	cop
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the outside of a toaster					dangerous property	tree rules

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