Test 5 · ★ · Milk, cheese and yoghurt

If you stirred a pan of hot milk the whole time, what would happen to the skin?

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

This is test 5 · ★ 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 stirred	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 stirred	nsubj
3	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pan	det
5	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stirred	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 milk	case
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 milk	amod
8	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pan	nmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stirred	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 happen	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 happen	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 happen	aux
15	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 time	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 skin	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 skin	det
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 happen	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stirred	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stir	past	you	a pan of hot milk			time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pan=Experiencer
2	happen	would	the whole time					to the skin	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 · ← Mova's choice

It would turn into butter

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	into	into	ADP	_	5 butter	case
5	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

Option 2

It would grow thicker

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would hardly form

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

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

Option 4

It would sink to the bottom

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 sink	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sink	aux
3	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 bottom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottom	det
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sink	obl

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

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