Test 4 · Chocolate and sweets

What would happen if melted chocolate were poured into moulds without tempering?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, melt, pour, temper · To what, where: melted chocolate, moulds

This is test 4 of lesson 2 «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology 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	_	8 poured	mark
5	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 chocolate	amod
6	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poured	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 poured	aux:pass
8	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 moulds	case
10	moulds	mould	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 poured	obl
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 tempering	mark
12	tempering	temper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 poured	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	melt	participle			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	pour a condition, not said to happen	past · passive	melted chocolate	moulds	vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into mould=Destination
4	temper	gerund			tree rules

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

It would set into a gummy sweet

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 set	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 set	aux
3	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 sweet	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sweet	det
6	gummy	gummy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sweet	amod
7	sweet	sweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	would	It			a gummy sweet			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It would turn back into milk and sugar

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	back	back	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 milk	case
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sugar	cc
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 milk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	would	It			milk and sugar			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would set dull and crumbly instead of glossy and snappy

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 set	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 set	aux
3	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 set	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 crumbly	cc
6	crumbly	crumbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dull	conj
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	9 glossy	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	glossy	glossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dull	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 snappy	cc
11	snappy	snappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dull	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	would	It					dull property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It would never set at all and would stay runny in the mould for ever

The tree, 15 words

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	4 set	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 set	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 set	advmod
4	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 set	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stay	cc
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stay	aux
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	conj
10	runny	runny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stay	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 mould	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mould	det
13	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stay	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 ever	case
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not set	would	It			all			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at all=Destination
2	stay	would				the mould		runny property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mould=Location

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