Test 3 · ★★ · Cooking is chemistry

What would happen if you used a handful of baking powder instead of a teaspoon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, use · To what, where: handful

This is test 3 · ★★ 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 used	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 used	nsubj
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 handful	det
8	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 powder	case
10	baking	baking	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 powder	compound
11	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handful	nmod
12	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	15 teaspoon	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 instead	fixed
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 teaspoon	det
15	teaspoon	teaspoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	obl
16	?	?	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	use a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a handful of baking powder				instead a teaspoon	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=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

They would not rise at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rise	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rise	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 rise	advmod
4	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 rise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rise	would	They			all			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The pancakes would taste soapy and bitter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pancakes	det
2	pancakes	pancake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taste	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 taste	aux
4	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	soapy	soapy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 taste	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bitter	cc
7	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soapy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	would	the pancakes					soapy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

They would be perfect, only twice as tall and fluffy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 perfect	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 perfect	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 perfect	cop
4	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tall	punct
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 tall	advmod
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 tall	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 tall	advmod
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 perfect	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fluffy	cc
11	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 perfect	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	would	They	perfect property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here	twice property	tree rules
3	be		They not said here		tree rules

Option 4

They would turn bright blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blue	amod
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	They					blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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