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title: why's the plate hot if microwaves heat the food?? — Cooking machines: oven, microwave, ket… · tree and pragmatics
description: why's the plate hot if microwaves heat the food?? Test 7 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 right.
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# Test 7 · Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
why's the plate hot if microwaves heat the food??

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** plate, microwaves · **What happens:** be, heat · **To what, where:** food

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:11-cooking-machines:t7:1
# text = why's the plate hot if microwaves heat the food??
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	microwaves	microwave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	heat	heat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the plate |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **heat** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | microwaves | the food |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The hot food warms the plate it sits on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:11-cooking-machines:t7:o1:1
# text = The hot food warms the plate it sits on
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	warms	warm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warm** | present | the hot food | the plate |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent plate=Patient |
| 2 | **sit on** | present | food |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Microwaves like plates more than they like the food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:11-cooking-machines:t7:o2:1
# text = Microwaves like plates more than they like the food
1	Microwaves	microwave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | Microwaves *= microwave* | the food |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The little light in the microwave heats it up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:11-cooking-machines:t7:o3:1
# text = The little light in the microwave heats it up
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	microwave	microwave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	heats	heat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heat up** | present | the little light in the microwave | microwave |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The turntable rubs against it as it turns and heats it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:11-cooking-machines:t7:o4:1
# text = The turntable rubs against it as it turns and heats it
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	turntable	turntable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rubs	rub	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	heats	heat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | present | the turntable |  |  | it |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme against it=Destination |
| 2 | **turn** | present | turntable |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **heat** | present | turntable *not said here* | turntable |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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