Test 2 · What is everything made of?

What would happen if you put food colouring in ice-cold water instead of hot water?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, put · To what, where: food colouring, ice cold water

This is test 2 of lesson 1 «What is everything made of?» of the chemistry 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 put	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 colouring	compound
8	colouring	colouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 water	case
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 water	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 ice	punct
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	amod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	17 water	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 water	amod
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	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	put a condition, not said to happen	present	you	food colouring		ice cold water		instead hot water	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent colouring=Theme in water=Destination

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It would not spread at all, ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spread	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 spread	advmod
4	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 spread	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ever	punct
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 spread	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spread	would	It			all	ever		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 2

It would freeze into a coloured lump at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 freeze	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 freeze	aux
3	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 lump	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lump	det
6	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lump	amod
7	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freeze	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 freeze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	would	It			a coloured lump			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It would spread faster than in hot water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spread	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
3	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 spread	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 faster	fixed
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	would	It			hot water		fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would spread much more slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spread	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
3	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 spread	advmod
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 spread	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	would	It					slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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