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title: Which is true about food left out in a warm room? — Kitchen floors, food safety and the mi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about food left out in a warm room? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 106 «Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave» 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 right.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave

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Which is true about food left out in a warm room?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, leave out · **To what, where:** food, warm room

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 106 «Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave» 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/106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t2:1
# text = Which is true about food left out in a warm room?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about food; true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave out** | participle |  | food *not said here* |  | a warm room |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 {#o1}

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Food lasts longer outside the fridge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t2:o1:1
# text = Food lasts longer outside the fridge
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | present | Food |  |  |  |  | outside the fridge; long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Germs grow fast at room temperature

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t2:o2:1
# text = Germs grow fast at room temperature
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Germs |  |  | room temperature |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at temperature=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cooked food can never go bad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t2:o3:1
# text = Cooked food can never go bad
1	Cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **go** | can | Cooked food |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Germs can only grow in the fridge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t2:o4:1
# text = Germs can only grow in the fridge
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | can | Germs |  |  | the fridge |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fridge=Location |

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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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