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title: Your phone falls in the bath and your nan grabs the rice. What would… — Food on the floor and kitchen rules · tree and pragmatics
description: Your phone falls in the bath and your nan grabs the rice. What would really help? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Food on the floor and kitchen rules» of the myths 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 2 · ★★ · Food on the floor and kitchen rules

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Your phone falls in the bath and your nan grabs the rice. What would really help?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** phone, nan · **What happens:** fall, grab, help · **To what, where:** bath, rice

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Food on the floor and kitchen rules» of the myths 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/myths/22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your phone falls in the bath and your nan grabs the rice.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules:t2:1
# text = Your phone falls in the bath and your nan grabs the rice.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grabs	grab	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | Your phone |  |  | the bath |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bath=Location |
| 2 | **grab** | present | your nan | the rice |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What would really help?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules:t2:2
# text = What would really help?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **help** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Blow it dry with a hairdryer on the very hottest setting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules:t2:o1:1
# text = Blow it dry with a hairdryer on the very hottest setting
1	Blow	blow	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	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hairdryer	hairdryer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hottest	hot	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | the hottest setting |  | with a hairdryer; dry *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Shake it hard and turn it on to check

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules:t2:o2:1
# text = Shake it hard and turn it on to check
1	Shake	shake	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	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **turn on** | present | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **check** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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Switch it off and let it dry in the air, not on charge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules:t2:o3:1
# text = Switch it off and let it dry in the air, not on charge
1	Switch	switch	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	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **switch off** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dry** | infinitive |  |  |  | the air |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Put it in rice and keep it charging

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:22-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules:t2:o4:1
# text = Put it in rice and keep it charging
1	Put	put	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	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	charging	charge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | rice |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in rice=Destination |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | rice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **charge** | gerund | rice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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