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title: What would happen if you used a handful of baking powder instead of… — Cooking is chemistry · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you used a handful of baking powder instead of a teaspoon? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Cooking is chemistry» of the chemistry 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 3 · ★★ · Cooking is chemistry

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What would happen if you used a handful of baking powder instead of a teaspoon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, use · **To what, where:** handful

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Cooking is chemistry» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:10-cooking-is-chemistry:t3:1
# text = What would happen if you used a handful of baking powder instead of a teaspoon?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	baking	baking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	teaspoon	teaspoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | a handful of baking powder |  |  |  | instead a teaspoon | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Patient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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They would not rise at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:10-cooking-is-chemistry:t3:o1:1
# text = They would not rise at all
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **rise** | would | They |  |  | all |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The pancakes would taste soapy and bitter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:10-cooking-is-chemistry:t3:o2:1
# text = The pancakes would taste soapy and bitter
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pancakes	pancake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	soapy	soapy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | would | the pancakes |  |  |  |  | soapy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They would be perfect, only twice as tall and fluffy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:10-cooking-is-chemistry:t3:o3:1
# text = They would be perfect, only twice as tall and fluffy
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | They |  |  |  |  | perfect *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  | twice *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They would turn bright blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:10-cooking-is-chemistry:t3:o4:1
# text = They would turn bright blue
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | They |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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