Test 3 · ★★ · Mixing and dissolving

What would happen if you used ice-cold water to make a strong syrup?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, use, make · To what, where: ice cold water, strong syrup

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Mixing and dissolving» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 used	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 used	nsubj
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 water	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 ice	punct
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 make	mark
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 syrup	det
14	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 syrup	amod
15	syrup	syrup	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use a condition, not said to happen	past	you	ice cold water	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
3	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	a strong syrup	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset syrup=Product

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

The sugar would freeze into ice

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	4 freeze	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 freeze	aux
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 ice	case
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freeze	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Much less sugar would dissolve, and slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Much	much	ADV	_	2 less	advmod
2	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sugar	amod
3	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dissolve	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 dissolve	aux
5	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slowly	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slowly	cc
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 dissolve	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	would	less sugar					slowly property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

More sugar would dissolve than in hot water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 sugar	amod
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dissolve	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dissolve	aux
4	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	8 water	case
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dissolve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	would	More sugar					than hot water	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It would turn into honey

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 honey	case
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

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