Test 11 · ★ · Milk, cheese and yoghurt

If you put milk in the fridge instead of on the table, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: put, happen · To what, where: milk, fridge

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 22 «Milk, cheese and yoghurt» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 put	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 happen	advcl
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 fridge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fridge	det
7	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
8	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 table	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 instead	fixed
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 table	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 table	det
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 happen	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 happen	aux
16	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put a condition, not said to happen	present	you	milk		the fridge		instead the table	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent milk=Theme in fridge=Destination
2	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It would turn to cheese

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cheese	mark
5	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	xcomp

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would boil over

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 boil	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 boil	aux
3	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 boil	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil over	would	It					over property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It would go sour faster

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 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	xcomp
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	It					fast, sour property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would stay fresh longer

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 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	It					fresh, long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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