Test 10 · ★★ · Cooking is chemistry

What would happen if you boiled an egg for 25 minutes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, boil · To what, where: egg

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Cooking is chemistry» 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 boiled	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 boiled	nsubj
6	boiled	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 egg	det
8	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boiled	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 minutes	case
10	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 minutes	nummod
11	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 boiled	obl
12	?	?	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	boil a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a egg			minute		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Patient

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

The yolk would melt and go runny again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 yolk	det
2	yolk	yolk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melt	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 melt	aux
4	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 go	cc
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 melt	conj
7	runny	runny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 melt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	would	the yolk				again		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	go	infinitive	the yolk not said here					runny property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The shell would turn into jelly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shell	det
2	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 jelly	case
6	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The yolk would be hard and dry, maybe with a green ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 yolk	det
2	yolk	yolk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 hard	cop
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dry	cc
7	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hard	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ring	punct
9	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	13 ring	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 ring	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ring	det
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ring	amod
13	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the yolk					hard property	tree rules
2	be		the yolk not said here						tree rules

Option 4

The egg would turn into a chick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 egg	det
2	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 chick	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chick	det
7	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the egg					into a chick result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into chick=Result

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