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title: Why does fried chicken taste different from boiled chicken? — Cooking is chemistry · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does fried chicken taste different from boiled chicken? Test 8 · ★★ 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 right.
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Cooking is chemistry

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Why does fried chicken taste different from boiled chicken?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** fry, boil · **To what, where:** chicken taste

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This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:10-cooking-is-chemistry:t8:1
# text = Why does fried chicken taste different from boiled chicken?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fried	fry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fry** | present · do-support |  | chicken taste |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent taste=Patient |
| 2 | **boil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Frying is hot enough for browning reactions, boiling is not

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:10-cooking-is-chemistry:t8:o1:1
# text = Frying is hot enough for browning reactions, boiling is not
1	Frying	frying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	browning	brown	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	reactions	reaction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Frying |  |  |  |  | enough, hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **brown** | gerund | Frying *not said here* | reactions |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent reaction=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **be** | present | boiling |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Boiling adds salt to the chicken and frying never adds any at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:10-cooking-is-chemistry:t8:o2:1
# text = Boiling adds salt to the chicken and frying never adds any at all
1	Boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	frying	fry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	nsubj	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Boiling | salt |  |  |  | to the chicken | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent salt=Patient to chicken=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **fry** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **add** *speech: assert* | present |  | any |  | all |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fried chicken is a different animal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:10-cooking-is-chemistry:t8:o3:1
# text = Fried chicken is a different animal
1	Fried	fry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Fried chicken | a different animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Boiled chicken has no protein

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:10-cooking-is-chemistry:t8:o4:1
# text = Boiled chicken has no protein
1	Boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	protein	protein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | Boiled chicken | no protein |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protein=Patient |

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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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