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title: What would happen to a candle under a very small jar? — The candle and what burning is · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a candle under a very small jar? Test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 11 «The candle and what burning is» 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 7 · ★★★ · The candle and what burning is

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What would happen to a candle under a very small jar?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** happen · **To what, where:** small jar

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This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 11 «The candle and what burning is» 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/11-the-candle-and-burning/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:11-the-candle-and-burning:t7:1
# text = What would happen to a candle under a very small jar?
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	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  | a small jar |  | to a candle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under jar=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It would go out very quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:11-the-candle-and-burning:t7:o1:1
# text = It would go out very quickly
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | would | It |  |  |  |  | out, quickly *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would burn on forever and ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:11-the-candle-and-burning:t7:o2:1
# text = It would burn on forever and ever
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn on** | would | It |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would turn blue and stay lit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:11-the-candle-and-burning:t7:o3:1
# text = It would turn blue and stay lit
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|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	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	lit	lit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | It |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | lit *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would grow taller and brighter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:11-the-candle-and-burning:t7:o4:1
# text = It would grow taller and brighter
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | It |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP 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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