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Exam question 2 · Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★

A yeast dough was prepared with water at a scalding temperature and failed to rise. Identify the most probable cause.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: prepare, fail, not rise, identify · To what, where: yeast dough, scalding temperature, probable cause

This is exam question 2 of lesson 36 «Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

Sentence 1: A yeast dough was prepared with water at a scalding temperature and failed to rise.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dough	det
2	yeast	yeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dough	compound
3	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prepared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prepared	aux:pass
5	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prepared	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 temperature	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 temperature	det
10	scalding	scalding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 temperature	compound
11	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prepared	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 failed	cc
13	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prepared	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 rise	mark
15	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 failed	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 prepared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prepare	past · passive		a yeast dough		a scalding temperature		with water	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with water=Instrument
2	fail	past							vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	not rise	to-infinitive							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: Identify the most probable cause.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cause	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 probable	advmod
4	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cause	amod
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the probable cause					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme

The options

Option 1

The flour contained too much protein

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flour	det
2	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 contained	nsubj
3	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 protein	amod
6	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 contained	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	past	the flour	much protein					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot protein=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The heat killed the yeast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heat	det
2	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 killed	nsubj
3	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 yeast	det
5	yeast	yeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	the heat	the yeast					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yeast=Theme

Option 3

The gluten strands were insufficiently kneaded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 strands	det
2	gluten	gluten	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strands	compound
3	strands	strand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kneaded	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kneaded	aux:pass
5	insufficiently	insufficiently	ADV	_	6 kneaded	advmod
6	kneaded	knead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knead	past · passive		the gluten strands				insufficiently property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The sugar had been fully dissolved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sugar	det
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dissolved	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dissolved	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 dissolved	aux:pass
5	fully	fully	ADV	_	6 dissolved	advmod
6	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	past · perfect · passive		the sugar				fully property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

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