--- title: "baking soda tastes sour like lemon, right? they're both in the cupb… — Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel… · tree and pragmatics description: "baking soda tastes sour like lemon, right? they're both in the cupboard". What's true? 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What's true? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** baking soda, they · **What happens:** taste, be · **To what, where:** lemon, cupboard This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 16 «Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids» 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/16-alkalis-and-soda/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* "baking soda tastes sour like lemon, right? they're both in the cupboard". ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:16-alkalis-and-soda:t11:1 # text = "baking soda tastes sour like lemon, right? they're both in the cupboard". 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 baking baking NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 soda soda NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tastes taste VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 sour sour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 7 discourse _ _ 7 lemon lemon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 right right INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 13 both both ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cupboard cupboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **taste** *in a quote* | present | baking soda | lemon | | | | sour *property* | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme lemon=Attribute | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | they | | | the cupboard | | both *property* | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* What's true? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:16-alkalis-and-soda:t11:2 # text = What's true? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Yes, both are acids ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:16-alkalis-and-soda:t11:o1:1 # text = Yes, both are acids 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 acids acid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | both acids | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} No, baking soda has no taste at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:16-alkalis-and-soda:t11:o2:1 # text = No, baking soda has no taste at all 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 baking baking NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 soda soda NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | baking soda | no taste | | all | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} No, it tastes bitter and soapy ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:16-alkalis-and-soda:t11:o3:1 # text = No, it tastes bitter and soapy 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tastes taste VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 soapy soapy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **taste** | present | it | | | | | bitter *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 4 {#o4} Yes, but it's a bit weaker ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:16-alkalis-and-soda:t11:o4:1 # text = Yes, but it's a bit weaker 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 weaker weak ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | it | | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked*; weak *property* | tree rules | **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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