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# Exam question 4 · Knives, kitchen tools and cooking

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Pursuant to the cleaning of a blender, ascertain the precaution required before the blades are touched.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, blender · **What happens:** ascertain, require, touch, clean · **To what, where:** precaution, blades

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 105 «Knives, kitchen tools and cooking» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking:e4:1
# text = Pursuant to the cleaning of a blender, ascertain the precaution required before the blades are touched.
1	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	blender	blender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	precaution	precaution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the precaution |  |  |  | to the cleaning of a blender; pursuant *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=Topic |
| 2 | **require** | participle |  | the precaution *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **touch** | present · passive |  | the blades |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **clean** |  | a blender |  |  |  |  |  | nom cleaning «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It must be filled with cold water first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking:e4:o1:1
# text = It must be filled with cold water first
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | must · passive |  | It |  |  |  | with cold water; first *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with water=Instrument |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It must be left running at a low speed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking:e4:o2:1
# text = It must be left running at a low speed
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | must · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  | a low speed |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It must be placed upon a dry tea towel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking:e4:o3:1
# text = It must be placed upon a dry tea towel
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	towel	towel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | must · passive |  | It |  | a dry tea towel |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon towel=Destination |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It must be switched off and unplugged

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking:e4:o4:1
# text = It must be switched off and unplugged
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	switched	switch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	unplugged	unplug	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **switch off** | must · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **unplug** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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