Test 8 · ★★ · Cooking is chemistry

Why does fried chicken taste different from boiled chicken?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: fry, boil · To what, where: chicken taste

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 fried	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fried	aux
3	fried	fry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taste	compound
5	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fried	obj
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 taste	amod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 chicken	case
8	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 chicken	amod
9	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 different	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fry	present · do-support		chicken taste					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent taste=Patient
2	boil	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 right answer

Frying is hot enough for browning reactions, boiling is not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frying	frying	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hot	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hot	cop
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 hot	advmod
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 browning	mark
6	browning	brown	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hot	advcl
7	reactions	reaction	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 browning	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
9	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 is	nsubj
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hot	conj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Frying		enough, hot property	tree rules
2	brown	gerund	Frying not said here	reactions		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent reaction=Patient
3	not be	present	boiling			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Boiling adds salt to the chicken and frying never adds any at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adds	nsubj
2	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adds	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 chicken	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chicken	det
6	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adds	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 adds	cc
8	frying	fry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 adds	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 adds	advmod
10	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 adds	conj
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 adds	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 adds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	Boiling	salt		to the chicken	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent salt=Patient to chicken=Co-Patient
2	fry	gerund					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	not add speech: assert	present		any	all		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient

Option 3

Fried chicken is a different animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fried	fry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 chicken	amod
2	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 animal	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 animal	det
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animal	amod
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fry	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	Fried chicken	a different animal					tree rules

Option 4

Boiled chicken has no protein

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 chicken	amod
2	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 protein	det
5	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	have	present	Boiled chicken	no protein					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protein=Patient

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