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title: A game shows a wizard fighting an acid monster with a "neutral potio… — Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel… · tree and pragmatics
description: A game shows a wizard fighting an acid monster with a "neutral potion" of water. What would actually cancel the acid? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 16 «Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 8 · ★ · Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids

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A game shows a wizard fighting an acid monster with a "neutral potion" of water. What would actually cancel the acid?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** game, wizard · **What happens:** show, fight, cancel · **To what, where:** wizard, acid monster, acid

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A game shows a wizard fighting an acid monster with a "neutral potion" of water.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:16-alkalis-and-soda:t8:1
# text = A game shows a wizard fighting an acid monster with a "neutral potion" of water.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	acid	acid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	neutral	neutral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	potion	potion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a game |  | a wizard |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wizard=Recipient |
| 2 | **fight** | gerund | a wizard *not said here* | a acid monster |  |  |  | with a neutral potion of water | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Co-Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What would actually cancel the acid?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:16-alkalis-and-soda:t8:2
# text = What would actually cancel the acid?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	cancel	cancel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cancel** | would |  | the acid |  |  |  | actually *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Pure sugar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:16-alkalis-and-soda:t8:o1:1
# text = Pure sugar
1	Pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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An alkali

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:16-alkalis-and-soda:t8:o2:1
# text = An alkali
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	alkali	alkali	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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More acid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:16-alkalis-and-soda:t8:o3:1
# text = More acid
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	acid	acid	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 metal sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:16-alkalis-and-soda:t8:o4:1
# text = A metal sword
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sword	sword	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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