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title: kitchen smells like rotten eggs, mum's out — Smells that warn · tree and pragmatics
description: kitchen smells like rotten eggs, mum's out Test 14 · ★ of lesson 13 «Smells that warn» 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 14 · ★ · Smells that warn

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kitchen smells like rotten eggs, mum's out

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** kitchen, mum · **What happens:** smell, be

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 13 «Smells that warn» 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/13-smells-that-warn/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:13-smells-that-warn:t14:1
# text = kitchen smells like rotten eggs, mum's out
1	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | present | kitchen |  |  |  |  | like rotten eggs | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | mum |  |  |  |  | out *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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Turn on the lights to look for it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:13-smells-that-warn:t14:o1:1
# text = Turn on the lights to look for it
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the lights |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on light=Trajectory |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for it | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Light a candle to cover the smell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:13-smells-that-warn:t14:o2:1
# text = Light a candle to cover the smell
1	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | to-infinitive |  | the smell |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme smell=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Open the oven to check it, then ring mum at work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:13-smells-that-warn:t14:o3:1
# text = Open the oven to check it, then ring mum at work
1	Open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	ring	ring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | imperative | you *not said here* | the oven |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oven=Theme |
| 2 | **check** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | oven |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **ring** | infinitive | you *not said here* | mum |  | work | then |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Get out and call for help from outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:13-smells-that-warn:t14:o4:1
# text = Get out and call for help from outside
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for help | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent for help=Asset from outside=Source |

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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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