Test 8 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

Which is the best way to start cooking breakfast at home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, start, cook · To what, where: best way, breakfast, home

This is test 8 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 start	mark
7	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	cooking	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 start	xcomp
9	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cooking	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 home	case
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cooking	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the best way		tree rules
2	start	to-infinitive			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cook	gerund	breakfast	home	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient

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

Start with the sharpest knife you can find

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 knife	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 knife	det
4	sharpest	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 knife	amod
5	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Start	obl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 find	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 knife	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here					with the sharpest knife	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with knife=Subeventuality
2	find	can	you	the sharpest knife not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Wash your hands and ask an adult to help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wash	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ask	cc
5	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wash	conj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 help	mark
9	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ask	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	your hands		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		a adult	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
3	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Cook alone so nobody gets in the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Cook	advmod
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 gets	mark
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 gets	nsubj
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Cook	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	imperative	you not said here					alone property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	get	present	nobody			the way			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Turn on every ring on the stove first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 ring	case
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 stove	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stove	det
7	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obl
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here			every ring		on the stove; first property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on ring=Trajectory

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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