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title: A cook leaves a metal spoon and a plastic spoon in a pot of hot stew… — Materials and their properties · tree and pragmatics
description: A cook leaves a metal spoon and a plastic spoon in a pot of hot stew. Which handle gets hot? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Materials and their properties» of the world 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 1 · ★★ · Materials and their properties

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A cook leaves a metal spoon and a plastic spoon in a pot of hot stew. Which handle gets hot?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cook, handle · **What happens:** leave, get · **To what, where:** metal spoon

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Materials and their properties» of the world 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/world/18-materials-and-properties/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cook leaves a metal spoon and a plastic spoon in a pot of hot stew.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:18-materials-and-properties:t1:1
# text = A cook leaves a metal spoon and a plastic spoon in a pot of hot stew.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stew	stew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | a cook | a metal spoon and a plastic spoon in a pot of hot stew |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which handle gets hot?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:18-materials-and-properties:t1:2
# text = Which handle gets hot?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | which handle |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Neither of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:18-materials-and-properties:t1:o1:1
# text = Neither of them
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The plastic one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:18-materials-and-properties:t1:o2:1
# text = The plastic one
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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The metal one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:18-materials-and-properties:t1:o3:1
# text = The metal one
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Both get equally hot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:18-materials-and-properties:t1:o4:1
# text = Both get equally hot
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Both |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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