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title: gonna microwave my porridge, left the spoon in — Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast · tree and pragmatics
description: gonna microwave my porridge, left the spoon in Test 15 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 15 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

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gonna microwave my porridge, left the spoon in

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** microwave, leave in · **To what, where:** porridge, spoon

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This is test 15 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/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t15:1
# text = gonna microwave my porridge, left the spoon in
1	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	_
2	microwave	microwave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **microwave** | infinitive |  | my porridge |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient |
| 2 | **leave in** | past |  | the spoon |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=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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Leave it in, it will heat up faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t15:o1:1
# text = Leave it in, it will heat up faster
1	Leave	leave	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	in	in	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	heat	heat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave in** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **heat up** | future | it |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Use a fork instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t15:o2:1
# text = Use a fork instead
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | a fork |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fork=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Take the metal spoon out first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t15:o3:1
# text = Take the metal spoon out first
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the metal spoon |  |  |  | first, out *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Just cover it with a plate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t15:o4:1
# text = Just cover it with a plate
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | with a plate | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with plate=Theme |

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