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description: Zoe's spoon gets stuck in the plugged-in blender. What must happen first? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 105 «Knives, kitchen tools and cooking» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Knives, kitchen tools and cooking

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Zoe's spoon gets stuck in the plugged-in blender. What must happen first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** spoon · **What happens:** get, plug, happen

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 105 «Knives, kitchen tools and cooking» of the everyday 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/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Zoe's spoon gets stuck in the plugged-in blender.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking:t3:1
# text = Zoe's spoon gets stuck in the plugged-in blender.
1	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	plugged	plug	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	blender	blender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Zoe's spoon |  |  |  |  | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **plug** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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 must happen first?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking:t3:2
# text = What must happen first?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | must |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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She pulls the spoon out quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking:t3:o1:1
# text = She pulls the spoon out quickly
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pulls	pull	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	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull out** | present | She | the spoon |  |  |  | quickly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The blender is switched off and unplugged

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking:t3:o2:1
# text = The blender is switched off and unplugged
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blender	blender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	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** | present · passive |  | the blender |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **unplug** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She shakes the whole blender hard to get it loose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking:t3:o3:1
# text = She shakes the whole blender hard to get it loose
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shakes	shake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	blender	blender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | present | She | the whole blender |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent blender=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | She *not said here* | blender |  |  |  | loose *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She turns the blender on to free it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking:t3:o4:1
# text = She turns the blender on to free it
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turns	turn	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	blender	blender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | She | the blender |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blender=Theme |

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