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title: Why should you never carry a hot drink while holding a baby? — Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwas… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why should you never carry a hot drink while holding a baby? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 107 «Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher» 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 4 · ★ · Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Why should you never carry a hot drink while holding a baby?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not carry, hold · **To what, where:** hot drink, baby

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 107 «Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher» 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/107-oven-hob-kettle-toaster-and-dishwasher/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:107-oven-hob-kettle-toaster-and-dishwasher:t4:1
# text = Why should you never carry a hot drink while holding a baby?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **carry** | should | you | a hot drink |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | you *not said here* | a baby |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The baby will want to drink the tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:107-oven-hob-kettle-toaster-and-dishwasher:t4:o1:1
# text = The baby will want to drink the tea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | future | the baby |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the baby *not said here* | the tea |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The drink could spill and scald the baby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:107-oven-hob-kettle-toaster-and-dishwasher:t4:o2:1
# text = The drink could spill and scald the baby
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	spill	spill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	scald	scald	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spill** | could | the drink |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **scald** | infinitive | the drink *not said here* | the baby |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Babies do not like the smell of tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:107-oven-hob-kettle-toaster-and-dishwasher:t4:o3:1
# text = Babies do not like the smell of tea
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | Babies | the smell of tea |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot smell=Theme |
| 2 | **smell** |  | tea |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Carrying both at the same time is too heavy to manage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:107-oven-hob-kettle-toaster-and-dishwasher:t4:o4:1
# text = Carrying both at the same time is too heavy to manage
1	Carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | gerund |  | both |  |  | time |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Carrying |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **manage** | to-infinitive | Carrying *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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