Test 5 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast
A girl in Halifax takes off the cover of a hot bowl of pasta and her face goes red. What went wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, face · What happens: take off, go · To what, where: cover
This is test 5 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
Sentence 1: A girl in Halifax takes off the cover of a hot bowl of pasta and her face goes red.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Halifax | case |
| 4 | Halifax | Halifax | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 takes | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cover | det |
| 8 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bowl | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bowl | det |
| 11 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bowl | amod |
| 12 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cover | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 pasta | case |
| 14 | pasta | pasta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bowl | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 goes | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 face | nmod:poss |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 goes | nsubj |
| 18 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 takes | conj |
| 19 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 goes | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 takes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | present | a girl in Halifax | the cover of a hot bowl of pasta | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | present | girl's face | red property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: What went wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | xcomp |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The microwave sprayed water on her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 microwave | det |
| 2 | microwave | microwave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | sprayed | spray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 water | amod |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 microwave | conj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 microwave | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spray | participle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
The microwave leaked dangerous rays out onto her face
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 microwave | det |
| 2 | microwave | microwave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | leaked | leak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 microwave | acl |
| 4 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rays | amod |
| 5 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leaked | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 leaked | advmod |
| 7 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 9 face | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leak out | participle | the microwave not said here | dangerous rays | her face | out property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ray=Source |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
She lifted it toward her face and the steam burned her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | obj |
| 4 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 6 face | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 face | nmod:poss |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 burned | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 steam | det |
| 9 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 burned | nsubj |
| 10 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 burned | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | She | it | her face | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme toward face=Destination | |||
| 2 | burn | past | the steam | her = she | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 4
The pasta was too cold to eat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pasta | det |
| 2 | pasta | pasta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cold | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 cold | advmod |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 eat | mark |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cold | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the pasta | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | the pasta not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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