--- title: If you stored silver forks in a box with rubber bands and boiled egg… — Tarnish and how metals change · tree and pragmatics description: If you stored silver forks in a box with rubber bands and boiled eggs, what would happen? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 14 «Tarnish and how metals change» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/) / [Tarnish and how metals change](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Tarnish and how metals change If you stored silver forks in a box with rubber bands and boiled eggs, what would happen? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, box · **What happens:** store, boil, happen · **To what, where:** silver forks, box This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 14 «Tarnish and how metals change» 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/14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change:t6:1 # text = If you stored silver forks in a box with rubber bands and boiled eggs, what would happen? 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stored store VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 forks fork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 bands band NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 boiled boil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 nsubj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **store** | past | you | silver forks | | a box with rubber bands and boiled eggs | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fork=Theme in box=Location | | 2 | **boil** | participle | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **happen** | would | a box with rubber bands and boiled eggs | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 {#o1} They would slowly turn green like an old statue in a park ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change:t6:o1:1 # text = They would slowly turn green like an old statue in a park 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 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 statue statue NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | would | They | | | a park | | like a old statue; green, slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in park=Trajectory | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} They would tarnish faster from the sulphur gases ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change:t6:o2:1 # text = They would tarnish faster from the sulphur gases 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 tarnish tarnish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 sulphur sulphur NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 gases gas NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tarnish** | would | They | | | the sulphur gases | | fast *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} They would start rusting orange ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change:t6:o3:1 # text = They would start rusting orange 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 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 rusting rust VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 orange orange NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | would | They | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **rust** | gerund | They *not said here* | orange | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} They would stay shiny forever ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change:t6:o4:1 # text = They would stay shiny forever 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 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 shiny shiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 forever forever ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | would | They | | | | | forever, shiny *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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