Test 11 · ★ · Browning apples, rotting and mould

If you threw half a dried apricot and half a fresh apricot into a warm damp cupboard, which would grow mould first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, warm damp cupboard · What happens: throw, dry, grow · To what, where: dried apricot, warm damp cupboard, mould

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 23 «Browning apples, rotting and mould» 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 threw	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 apricot	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 apricot	det
6	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 apricot	amod
7	apricot	apricot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 apricot	cc
9	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	12 apricot	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 apricot	det
11	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 apricot	amod
12	apricot	apricot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 apricot	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	17 cupboard	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cupboard	det
15	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cupboard	amod
16	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cupboard	amod
17	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grow	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 grow	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 grow	aux
21	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cupboard	conj
22	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grow	obj
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 grow	advmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw	past	you	half dried apricot and half fresh apricot	into a warm damp cupboard result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer apricot=Theme into cupboard=Result
2	dry	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	grow	would	a warm damp cupboard	mould	first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mould=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

Neither, apricots never grow mould

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	5 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	apricots	apricot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 grow	advmod
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	present	apricots	mould					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mould=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The fresh one, it has more water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the fresh one	more water					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 3

Both at exactly the same time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	6 time	case
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 time	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Both	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The dried one, it has more sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 sugar	amod
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	have	present	the dried one	more sugar					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/t11/