Test 7 · Kitchen and garden dangers
The hob's been off for 5 minutes. Is it safe to touch?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: hob, it · What happens: be off, be, touch
This is test 7 of lesson 15 «Kitchen and garden dangers» 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
Sentence 1: The hob's been off for 5 minutes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hob | det |
| 2 | hob | hob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 been | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 been | aux |
| 4 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 been | compound:prt |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 minutes | case |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 minutes | nummod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 been | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 been | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be off | present · passive | the hob | minute | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: Is it safe to touch?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 safe | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 safe | nsubj |
| 3 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 touch | mark |
| 5 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 safe | xcomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 safe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | touch | to-infinitive | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Yes, hobs cool down in a few seconds once switched off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 cool | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | hobs | hob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cool | nsubj |
| 4 | cool | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 cool | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 seconds | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 seconds | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seconds | amod |
| 9 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cool | obl |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 switched | advmod |
| 11 | switched | switch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cool | advcl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 switched | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cool down | present | hobs | second | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | switch off | participle | hobs not said here | once property | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Not yet; hobs stay hot after they are off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 yet | advmod |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 stay | advmod |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 4 | hobs | hob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stay | xcomp |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 off | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 off | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 off | cop |
| 10 | off | off | ADV | _ | 5 stay | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | hobs | yet | hot property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | hobs = hob | off property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, if the light is off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 off | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 off | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 light | det |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 off | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 off | cop |
| 7 | off | off | ADV | _ | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the light | off property | tree rules |
Option 4
No, because it is still cooking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 cooking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cooking | punct |
| 3 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 7 cooking | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cooking | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cooking | cop |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 cooking | advmod |
| 7 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | still | because cooking | tree rules |
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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