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title: Why can carrying a hot pan across a wet floor be very dangerous? — Kitchen floors, food safety and the mi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why can carrying a hot pan across a wet floor be very dangerous? Test 3 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave

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Why can carrying a hot pan across a wet floor be very dangerous?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** carry, be · **To what, where:** hot pan, wet floor

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t3:1
# text = Why can carrying a hot pan across a wet floor be very dangerous?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | can |  | a hot pan |  | a wet floor |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pan=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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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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Pans slide off wet hands only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t3:o1:1
# text = Pans slide off wet hands only
1	Pans	pan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slide	slide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide off** | present | Pans | wet hands |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Agent |

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

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Someone could slip and be burnt as well as hurt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t3:o2:1
# text = Someone could slip and be burnt as well as hurt
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	10	cc	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
10	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** | could | Someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **burnt** | infinitive · passive | Someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hurt** | participle | Someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Water makes pans hotter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t3:o3:1
# text = Water makes pans hotter
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pans	pan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Water | pans |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pan=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Wet floors make the pans much heavier to hold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t3:o4:1
# text = Wet floors make the pans much heavier to hold
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pans	pan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Wet floors | the pans |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pan=Product |
| 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive | the pans *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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