Test 7 · Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob

why's the plate hot if microwaves heat the food??

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: plate, microwaves · What happens: be, heat · To what, where: food

This is test 7 of lesson 11 «Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob» of the technology 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 hot	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plate	det
4	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hot	nsubj
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 heat	mark
7	microwaves	microwave	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heat	nsubj
8	heat	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 food	det
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heat	obj
11	??	??	PUNCT	_	5 hot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the plate					hot property	tree rules
2	heat a condition, not said to happen	present	microwaves	the food					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=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 · ✓ the right answer

The hot food warms the plate it sits on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 food	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 food	amod
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warms	nsubj
4	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plate	det
6	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warms	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sits	nsubj
8	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warms	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 sits	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	present	the hot food	the plate					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent plate=Patient
2	sit on	present	food						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Microwaves like plates more than they like the food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Microwaves	microwave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 more	nsubj
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 plates	case
3	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Microwaves	nmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 like	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
7	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 more	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 food	det
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	Microwaves = microwave	the food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 3

The little light in the microwave heats it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 light	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 light	amod
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heats	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 microwave	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 microwave	det
6	microwave	microwave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 light	nmod
7	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heats	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 heats	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat up	present	the little light in the microwave	microwave					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

The turntable rubs against it as it turns and heats it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 turntable	det
2	turntable	turntable	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rubs	nsubj
3	rubs	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	against	against	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rubs	obl
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 turns	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 turns	nsubj
8	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rubs	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 heats	cc
10	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 turns	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	rub	present	the turntable		it	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme against it=Destination
2	turn	present	turntable			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	heat	present	turntable not said here	turntable		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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