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title: chicken's still a bit pink in the middle but i'm starving — Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast · tree and pragmatics
description: chicken's still a bit pink in the middle but i'm starving Test 14 of lesson 38 «Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast» 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 14 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

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chicken's still a bit pink in the middle but i'm starving

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** i · **What happens:** starve

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This is test 14 of lesson 38 «Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast» 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/38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t14:1
# text = chicken's still a bit pink in the middle but i'm starving
1	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **starve** | present · progressive | i |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Eat the outside and leave the pink middle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t14:o1:1
# text = Eat the outside and leave the pink middle
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	outside	outside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | the outside |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outside=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the pink middle |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent middle=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Eat it, pink is fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t14:o2:1
# text = Eat it, pink is fine
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	compound	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	pink	pink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | infinitive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Eat pink |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Add hot sauce, that kills the germs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t14:o3:1
# text = Add hot sauce, that kills the germs
1	Add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sauce	sauce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | hot sauce |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sauce=Patient |
| 2 | **kill** | present | hot sauce | the germs |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cook it longer until it is cooked right through

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t14:o4:1
# text = Cook it longer until it is cooked right through
1	Cook	cook	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
4	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
8	right	right	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	through	through	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | long *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **cook** | present · passive |  | it |  |  |  | through *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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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