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description: "my white shirt had curry on it and now the stain's gone RED after washing??" Why? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 17 «Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow» 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 right.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow

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"my white shirt had curry on it and now the stain's gone RED after washing??" Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** white shirt, stain · **What happens:** have, go, wash · **To what, where:** curry

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 17 «Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow» 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/17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "my white shirt had curry on it and now the stain's gone RED after washing??"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t10:1
# text = "my white shirt had curry on it and now the stain's gone RED after washing??"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	curry	curry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stain	stain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	RED	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | my white shirt | curry |  | curry |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curry=Patient |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | participle | the stain |  |  |  | now | red *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wash** *in a quote* | gerund | the stain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t10:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The washing machine added its own red dye

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t10:o1:1
# text = The washing machine added its own red dye
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dye	dye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | the washing machine | machine's own red dye |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dye=Patient |

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

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Turmeric turns red with alkaline soap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t10:o2:1
# text = Turmeric turns red with alkaline soap
1	Turmeric	turmeric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	alkaline	alkaline	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Turmeric |  |  |  |  | with alkaline soap; red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The curry was secretly tomato

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t10:o3:1
# text = The curry was secretly tomato
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	curry	curry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tomato	tomato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the curry | tomato |  |  |  | secretly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hot water burns stains red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t10:o4:1
# text = Hot water burns stains red
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	stains	stain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present | Hot water | stains |  |  |  | red *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stain=Theme |

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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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