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title: If you dropped universal indicator into lemon juice and then into bl… — Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow · tree and pragmatics
description: If you dropped universal indicator into lemon juice and then into bleach, what would you see? Test 5 · ★ 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 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow

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If you dropped universal indicator into lemon juice and then into bleach, what would you see?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** drop, see · **To what, where:** universal indicator, lemon juice

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t5:1
# text = If you dropped universal indicator into lemon juice and then into bleach, what would you see?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	indicator	indicator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	lemon	lemon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bleach	bleach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past | you | universal indicator |  | lemon juice and bleach |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent indicator=Theme into juice=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | would | you | lemon juice and bleach |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=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 {#o1}

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The cups would start fizzing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t5:o1:1
# text = The cups would start fizzing
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	fizzing	fizz	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | would | the cups |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fizz** | gerund | the cups *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No colour at all both times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t5:o2:1
# text = No colour at all both times
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Two very different colours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t5:o3:1
# text = Two very different colours
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The same colour both times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t5:o4:1
# text = The same colour both times
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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