Exam question 2 · Kitchen and garden dangers
It is given that a cup of tea was prepared fifteen minutes previously. Ascertain whether it may still scald a young child.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cup · What happens: give, prepare, ascertain, scald · To what, where: It, cup, young child
This is exam question 2 of lesson 15 «Kitchen and garden dangers» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is given that a cup of tea was prepared fifteen minutes previously.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 prepared | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cup | det |
| 6 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tea | case |
| 8 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cup | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 prepared | aux:pass |
| 10 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 11 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 minutes | nummod |
| 12 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 previously | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | previously | previously | ADV | _ | 10 prepared | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | prepare | past · passive | a cup of tea | previously property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
Sentence 2: Ascertain whether it may still scald a young child.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 6 scald | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 scald | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 scald | aux |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 scald | advmod |
| 6 | scald | scald | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ascertain | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 child | amod |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scald | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | scald | may | cup | a young child | still | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument child=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It may scald only an adult
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scald | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 scald | aux |
| 3 | scald | scald | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 adult | advmod |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 adult | det |
| 6 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scald | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scald | may | It | a adult | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
It may scald only if milk is absent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scald | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 scald | aux |
| 3 | scald | scald | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 scald | advmod |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 absent | mark |
| 6 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 absent | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 absent | cop |
| 8 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 scald | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scald | may | It | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | milk | absent property | tree rules |
Option 3
It is certainly incapable of scalding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 incapable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 incapable | cop |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 incapable | advmod |
| 4 | incapable | incapable | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 scalding | case |
| 6 | scalding | scalding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 incapable | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | incapable | of scalding; certainly property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It may still be hot enough to scald
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hot | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hot | aux |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 hot | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hot | cop |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 hot | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 scald | mark |
| 8 | scald | scald | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hot | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | It | still | enough, hot property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | scald | to-infinitive | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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