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Test 7 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

Mum's microwave porridge is lukewarm at the edge. Why might it still burn you?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: microwave porridge, Mum, porridge · What happens: be, microwave, burn · To what, where: edge, you

This is test 7 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: Mum's microwave porridge is lukewarm at the edge.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 microwave	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mum	case
3	microwave	microwave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 porridge	compound
4	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lukewarm	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lukewarm	cop
6	lukewarm	lukewarm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 edge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 edge	det
9	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lukewarm	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lukewarm	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	microwave porridge			the edge		lukewarm property	tree rules
2	microwave		Mum						nom microwave «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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: Why might it still burn you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 burn	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 burn	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 burn	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 burn	advmod
5	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 burn	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 burn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	might	porridge	you			still		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme

The options

Option 1

Cold porridge burns more than hot porridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 porridge	amod
2	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burns	nsubj
3	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 burns	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 porridge	case
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 porridge	amod
7	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	Cold porridge	more					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Microwaves heat unevenly and the middle can be very hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Microwaves	microwave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heat	nsubj
2	heat	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	unevenly	unevenly	ADV	_	2 heat	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hot	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hot	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hot	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 hot	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 hot	advmod
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 heat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	present	Microwaves					unevenly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	can	the middle					hot property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The bowl makes the porridge hotter and hotter as it cools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bowl	det
2	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 porridge	det
5	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hotter	cc
8	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 hotter	conj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 cools	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cools	nsubj
11	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the bowl	the porridge				hot property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material porridge=Product
2	cool	present	bowl						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Porridge never gets hot in a microwave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 gets	advmod
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gets	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 microwave	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 microwave	det
7	microwave	microwave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	present	Porridge			a microwave		hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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