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title: What would most likely happen to an egg in its shell in the microwave? — Kitchen floors, food safety and the mi… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would most likely happen to an egg in its shell in the microwave? Test 6 · ★ 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 6 · ★ · Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave

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What would most likely happen to an egg in its shell in the microwave?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** happen · **To what, where:** shell

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t6:1
# text = What would most likely happen to an egg in its shell in the microwave?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	microwave	microwave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  | egg's shell in the microwave |  | to a egg; likely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in shell=Location |

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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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It stays raw inside the shell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t6:o1:1
# text = It stays raw inside the shell
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | It |  |  | the shell |  | raw *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside shell=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It cooks perfectly like a boiled egg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t6:o2:1
# text = It cooks perfectly like a boiled egg
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cooks	cook	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | present | It |  |  |  |  | like a boiled egg; perfectly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **boil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It turns into an omelette

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t6:o3:1
# text = It turns into an omelette
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|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	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	omelette	omelette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | It |  |  | a omelette |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into omelette=Trajectory |

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

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Steam builds up and it bursts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t6:o4:1
# text = Steam builds up and it bursts
1	Steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bursts	burst	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build up** | present | Steam |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **burst** | present | Steam |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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