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Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★

In Cape Town, Sipho says: "Squeeze a half-empty soda bottle before you close it and it stays fizzier, lekker trick!" Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sipho, you, bottle · What happens: say, squeeze, close, stay, be · To what, where: Cape Town, empty soda bottle, bottle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 37 «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★» 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

Sentence 1: In Cape Town, Sipho says: "Squeeze a half-empty soda bottle before you close it and it stays fizzier, lekker trick!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 Town	case
2	Cape	Cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Town	compound
3	Town	Town	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Town	punct
5	Sipho	Sipho	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Squeeze	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Squeeze	punct
9	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bottle	det
11	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 empty	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 half	punct
13	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bottle	amod
14	soda	soda	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bottle	compound
15	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Squeeze	obj
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 close	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 close	nsubj
18	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Squeeze	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 close	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stays	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stays	nsubj
22	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 close	conj
23	fizzier	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 stays	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 trick	punct
25	lekker	lekker	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 trick	compound
26	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Squeeze	parataxis
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 Squeeze	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Squeeze	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	Sipho			Cape Town			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	squeeze in a quote	infinitive		a empty soda bottle					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme
3	close in a quote	present	you	bottle					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	stay in a quote	present	bottle					fizzy property	vn exist-47.1 «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.

Sentence 2: Is he right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sipho					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, but it works only with diet drinks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 works	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 works	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 works	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 works	nsubj
5	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 drinks	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 drinks	case
8	diet	diet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drinks	compound
9	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	it					with diet drinks	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with drink=Co-Agent

Option 2

Yes, the squeeze pushes the gas back into the drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 pushes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 squeeze	det
4	squeeze	squeeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	nsubj
5	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gas	det
7	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	5 pushes	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 drink	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 drink	det
11	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push back	present	the squeeze	the gas		the drink			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gas=Theme into drink=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, squeezing doesn't keep it fizzier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	squeezing	squeezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 keep	advmod
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obj
8	fizzier	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not keep	present · do-support	squeezing	it				fizzy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

No, the squeeze makes the bottle explode

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 squeeze	det
4	squeeze	squeeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bottle	det
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
8	explode	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the squeeze	the bottle					tree rules
2	explode	infinitive	the bottle not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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