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title: A jug of milk stays on the table all day in summer. Why does it go s… — The microscopic world: bacteria, good… · tree and pragmatics
description: A jug of milk stays on the table all day in summer. Why does it go sour? Test 7 of lesson 257 «The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad

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A jug of milk stays on the table all day in summer. Why does it go sour?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** jug · **What happens:** stay, go · **To what, where:** table

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This is test 7 of lesson 257 «The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A jug of milk stays on the table all day in summer.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad:t7:1
# text = A jug of milk stays on the table all day in summer.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jug	jug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | a jug of milk |  |  | the table | day; summer |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on table=Location |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why does it go sour?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad:t7:2
# text = Why does it go sour?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · do-support | jug |  |  |  |  | sour *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Milk always goes sour after noon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad:t7:o1:1
# text = Milk always goes sour after noon
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Milk |  |  |  | noon | always, sour *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Air pushes the cream to the bottom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad:t7:o2:1
# text = Air pushes the cream to the bottom
1	Air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | present | Air | the cream |  | the bottom |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cream=Theme to bottom=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The sunlight coming in turns the milk into lemon juice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad:t7:o3:1
# text = The sunlight coming in turns the milk into lemon juice
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	lemon	lemon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | gerund | the sunlight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | present | the sunlight | the milk |  | lemon juice |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent milk=Theme into juice=Trajectory |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Bacteria multiply in the warm milk and make acid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad:t7:o4:1
# text = Bacteria multiply in the warm milk and make acid
1	Bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	multiply	multiply	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **multiply** | present | Bacteria |  |  |  |  | in the warm milk | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in milk=Attribute |
| 2 | **make** | present | Bacteria *not said here* | acid |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product |

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**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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