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description: Identify the principal reason for which water shall not be applied to burning cooking oil. Exam question 2 of lesson 12 «Fire: what it needs and how to put it out» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Exam question 2 · Fire: what it needs and how to put it out

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Identify the principal reason for which water shall not be applied to burning cooking oil.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, not apply, burn · **To what, where:** principal reason, water

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 12 «Fire: what it needs and how to put it out» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/12-fire-what-it-needs/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for which water shall not be applied to burning cooking oil.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
14	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal reason |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **apply** | shall · passive |  | water |  |  |  | for the principal reason; to burning cooking oil | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for which=Eventuality |
| 3 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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It reacts chemically with the oil to form a poisonous and flammable liquid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:e2:o1:1
# text = It reacts chemically with the oil to form a poisonous and flammable liquid
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reacts	react	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	chemically	chemically	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	flammable	flammable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **react** | present | It |  |  |  |  | with the oil; chemically *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with oil=Eventuality |
| 2 | **form** | to-infinitive |  | a poisonous liquid |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location liquid=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It cools the oil insufficiently to have any effect

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:e2:o2:1
# text = It cools the oil insufficiently to have any effect
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cools	cool	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	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	insufficiently	insufficiently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cool** | present | It | the oil |  |  |  | insufficiently *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent oil=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | any effect |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It increases the supply of fuel to the fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:e2:o3:1
# text = It increases the supply of fuel to the fire
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	increases	increase	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	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | present | It | the supply of fuel |  |  |  | to the fire *result* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient supply=Extent to fire=Result |

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

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It is instantly converted to steam and projects the burning oil outward

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:e2:o4:1
# text = It is instantly converted to steam and projects the burning oil outward
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	converted	converted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	projects	project	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	outward	outward	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | to steam; converted, instantly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **project** | present |  | the burning oil |  |  |  | outward *property* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent oil=Value |

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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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