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title: Which tastes most sour? — Acids in the kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Which tastes most sour? Test 9 of lesson 15 «Acids in the kitchen» 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 · Acids in the kitchen

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Which tastes most sour?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** taste

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This is test 9 of lesson 15 «Acids in the kitchen» 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/15-acids-in-the-kitchen/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:15-acids-in-the-kitchen:t9:1
# text = Which tastes most sour?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | present |  |  |  |  |  | sour *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 spoonful of plain rice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:15-acids-in-the-kitchen:t9:o1:1
# text = A spoonful of plain rice
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spoonful	spoonful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A slice of white bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:15-acids-in-the-kitchen:t9:o2:1
# text = A slice of white bread
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slice** |  |  | white bread |  |  |  |  | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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An unripe green plum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:15-acids-in-the-kitchen:t9:o3:1
# text = An unripe green plum
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	unripe	unripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A ripe, sweet yellow banana

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:15-acids-in-the-kitchen:t9:o4:1
# text = A ripe, sweet yellow banana
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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