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title: What would happen if the microwave door stayed working while it was… — Cooking machines: oven, microwave, ket… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if the microwave door stayed working while it was open? Test 5 of lesson 11 «Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 5 · Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob

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What would happen if the microwave door stayed working while it was open?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** microwave door, door · **What happens:** happen, stay, work, be

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This is test 5 of lesson 11 «Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob» of the technology 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/technology/11-cooking-machines/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:11-cooking-machines:t5:1
# text = What would happen if the microwave door stayed working while it was open?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	microwave	microwave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the microwave door |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | the microwave door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | door |  |  |  |  | open *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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The microwaves would turn into light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:11-cooking-machines:t5:o1:1
# text = The microwaves would turn into light
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	microwaves	microwave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the microwaves |  |  | light |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into light=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing, the turntable would just stop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:11-cooking-machines:t5:o2:1
# text = Nothing, the turntable would just stop
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	turntable	turntable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | the turntable |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It doesn't: safety switches stop the microwaves when it opens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:11-cooking-machines:t5:o3:1
# text = It doesn't: safety switches stop the microwaves when it opens
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	switches	switch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	microwaves	microwave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stop** | present | safety switches | the microwaves |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality microwave=Eventuality |
| 3 | **open** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The kitchen would fill with lovely smells and nothing else would happen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:11-cooking-machines:t5:o4:1
# text = The kitchen would fill with lovely smells and nothing else would happen
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	smells	smell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
10	else	else	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | would | the kitchen |  |  |  |  | with lovely smells | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with smell=Instrument |
| 2 | **happen** | would | nothing | lovely smells *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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