Test 8 · ★ · Oil and water, and things that won't mix

"pan's greasy as hell, cold water does nothing" Best fix?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pan, greasy cold water · What happens: be, do · To what, where: nothing

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 7 «Oil and water, and things that won't mix» 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 greasy	punct
2	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 greasy	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 greasy	cop
4	greasy	greasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 hell	case
6	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 greasy	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 greasy	punct
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 does	nsubj
10	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 does	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 fix	punct
13	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 fix	amod
14	fix	fix	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nothing	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	pan					as hell; greasy property	tree rules
2	do in a quote	present	greasy cold water	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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

Scrub it with salt and cold water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scrub	scrub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Scrub	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 salt	case
4	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scrub	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 water	cc
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 salt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrub	imperative	you not said here	it				with salt and cold water	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Use warm water and soap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 soap	cc
5	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	warm water and soap					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 3

Just wipe it with a dry cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 wipe	advmod
2	wipe	wipe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wipe	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 cloth	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cloth	det
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cloth	amod
7	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wipe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe	imperative	you not said here	it				with a dry cloth	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Use more cold water, faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 water	amod
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 faster	punct
6	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Use	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	more cold water					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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