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title: Dad stirs the pan with a metal spoon and yelps: "bloody handle's red… — Metals and what they're good for · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad stirs the pan with a metal spoon and yelps: "bloody handle's red hot!" What should he use? Test 2 of lesson 31 «Metals and what they're good for» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 2 · Metals and what they're good for

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Dad stirs the pan with a metal spoon and yelps: "bloody handle's red hot!" What should he use?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Dad · **What happens:** stir, yelp, use · **To what, where:** pan, bloody handle

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This is test 2 of lesson 31 «Metals and what they're good for» of the chemistry 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Dad stirs the pan with a metal spoon and yelps: "bloody handle's red hot!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:t2:1
# text = Dad stirs the pan with a metal spoon and yelps: "bloody handle's red hot!"
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stirs	stir	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	yelps	yelp	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stir** | present | Dad | the pan |  |  |  | with a metal spoon | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pan=Patient with spoon=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **yelp** | present | Dad *not said here* | bloody handle |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent handle=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should he use?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:t2:2
# text = What should he use?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | should | Dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A wet metal spoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:t2:o1:1
# text = A wet metal spoon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A thinner metal spoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:t2:o2:1
# text = A thinner metal spoon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	thinner	thin	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
3	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A gold spoon, which never gets hot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:t2:o3:1
# text = A gold spoon, which never gets hot
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | present | a gold spoon |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A wooden spoon, which stays cool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:t2:o4:1
# text = A wooden spoon, which stays cool
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | a wooden spoon |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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**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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