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title: A boy in Glasgow puts both hands into the washing-up bowl without lo… — Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Glasgow puts both hands into the washing-up bowl without looking. Why is that risky? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 217 «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 1 · ★ · Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors

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A boy in Glasgow puts both hands into the washing-up bowl without looking. Why is that risky?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy, that · **What happens:** put, look, be · **To what, where:** hands, washing bowl

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 217 «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» 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/217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Glasgow puts both hands into the washing-up bowl without looking.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors:t1:1
# text = A boy in Glasgow puts both hands into the washing-up bowl without looking.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
13	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present | a boy in Glasgow | both hands |  | the washing bowl |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | a boy in Glasgow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why is that risky?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors:t1:2
# text = Why is that risky?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	risky	risky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | risky *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A sharp knife could be hidden under the bubbles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors:t1:o1:1
# text = A sharp knife could be hidden under the bubbles
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | could · passive |  | a sharp knife |  | the bubbles |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under bubble=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The water could be too cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors:t1:o2:1
# text = The water could be too cold
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | could | the water |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The soap might stain his hands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors:t1:o3:1
# text = The soap might stain his hands
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stain	stain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stain** | might | the soap | soap's hands |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Destination |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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He might drop a cup into the bin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors:t1:o4:1
# text = He might drop a cup into the bin
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | might | He | a cup |  | the bin |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cup=Theme into bin=Destination |

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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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