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title: Which object would you expect to look the same after a hundred years… — Tarnish and how metals change · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object would you expect to look the same after a hundred years in a church? Test 9 · ★ 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.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Tarnish and how metals change

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Which object would you expect to look the same after a hundred years in a church?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** expect, look · **To what, where:** same, church

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change:t9:1
# text = Which object would you expect to look the same after a hundred years in a church?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | would | which object |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **look** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | which object *not said here* | the same |  | a church | year |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute |

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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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A bright new copper church roof

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change:t9:o1:1
# text = A bright new copper church roof
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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A gold-leaf picture frame

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change:t9:o2:1
# text = A gold-leaf picture frame
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A silver candlestick on the altar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change:t9:o3:1
# text = A silver candlestick on the altar
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	candlestick	candlestick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A big bronze bell in the tower

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change:t9:o4:1
# text = A big bronze bell in the tower
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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