Test 9 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast
An egg is cooked but the white is still clear and runny. What should you do?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: white, you · What happens: cook, be, do · To what, where: egg
This is test 9 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: An egg is cooked but the white is still clear and runny.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 egg | det |
| 2 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cooked | aux:pass |
| 4 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 clear | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 white | det |
| 7 | white | white | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clear | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 clear | cop |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 clear | advmod |
| 10 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cooked | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 runny | cc |
| 12 | runny | runny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clear | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cooked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | present · passive | a egg | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the white | still | clear property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | the white not said here | 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.
Sentence 2: What should you do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Put it in the fridge to finish cooking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 fridge | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fridge | det |
| 5 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 finish | mark |
| 7 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Put | advcl |
| 8 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finish | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | it | the fridge | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in fridge=Destination | |||
| 2 | finish | to-infinitive | you not said here | cooking | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality cooking=Eventuality |
Option 2
Add salt to make it safe to eat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Add | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 make | mark |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Add | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 make | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 eat | mark |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 safe | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | salt | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | salt | safe property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | salt not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Cook it a little longer until the white is firm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cook | cook | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Cook | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 longer | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Cook | advmod |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 firm | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 white | det |
| 8 | white | white | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 firm | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 firm | cop |
| 10 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Cook | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | imperative | you not said here | it | long property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | the white | firm property | tree rules |
Option 4
Eat it now because eggs are always safe, cooked or not
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Eat | obj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Eat | advmod |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 safe | mark |
| 5 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 safe | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 safe | cop |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 safe | advmod |
| 8 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Eat | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cooked | punct |
| 10 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 safe | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 not | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 safe | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | imperative | you not said here | it | now | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | eggs | always, safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cook | participle | eggs not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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