Test 18 · ★★★ · Thinking it through: the science behind home safety

kid at school reckons cooking food kills every germ so u can leave the rice out for days

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, u · What happens: reckon, cook, kill, leave out · To what, where: food, germ, rice

This is test 18 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» 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	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 school	case
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kid	nmod
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cooking	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 kills	nsubj
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cooking	obj
7	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reckons	acl:relcl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 germ	det
9	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kills	obj
10	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 leave	mark
11	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 leave	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 leave	aux
13	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 kills	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rice	det
15	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leave	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	13 leave	compound:prt
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 days	case
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	reckon	present	kid at school			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	cook	gerund		food		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient
3	kill	present		every germ		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
4	leave out	can	u	the rice	day	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He is right, cooked food never goes bad, whatever you do with it

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 goes	punct
5	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goes	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 goes	advmod
8	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 goes	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whatever	punct
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 whatever	acl:relcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	He	right property	tree rules
2	cook	participle			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	not go	present	cooked food	bad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	present	you	with food	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He is right, rice is safe forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 safe	punct
5	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 safe	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 safe	cop
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj
8	forever	forever	ADV	_	7 safe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	is	present	rice					forever, safe property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Wrong; some germs leave poisons that cooking does not destroy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 germs	amod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 germs	det
4	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leave	nsubj
5	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	poisons	poison	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leave	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 cooking	det
8	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 destroy	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 destroy	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 destroy	advmod
11	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 poisons	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	some Wrong germs	poisons					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Theme
2	not destroy	present · do-support	that cooking						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He is right, if you reheat it twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reheat	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 reheat	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 reheat	nsubj
7	reheat	reheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reheat	obj
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 reheat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	reheat a condition, not said to happen	present	you	it				twice property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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