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title: Dad squeezes the half-empty bottle before closing it "to keep the fi… — Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad squeezes the half-empty bottle before closing it "to keep the fizz". Does it work? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 19 «Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola» 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 3 · ★ · Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola

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Dad squeezes the half-empty bottle before closing it "to keep the fizz". Does it work?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dad, fizz · **What happens:** squeeze, close, keep, work · **To what, where:** empty bottle, bottle, fizz

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 19 «Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola» 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/19-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Dad squeezes the half-empty bottle before closing it "to keep the fizz".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:19-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola:t3:1
# text = Dad squeezes the half-empty bottle before closing it "to keep the fizz".
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	squeezes	squeeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	closing	close	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fizz	fizz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeeze** | present | Dad | the empty bottle |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme |
| 2 | **close** | gerund | Dad *not said here* | bottle |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Dad *not said here* | the fizz |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fizz=Theme |

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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:* Does it work?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:19-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola:t3:2
# text = Does it work?
1	Does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present · do-support | fizz |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yes, but only overnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:19-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola:t3:o1:1
# text = Yes, but only overnight
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, it keeps every bit of the fizz in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:19-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola:t3:o2:1
# text = Yes, it keeps every bit of the fizz in
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fizz	fizz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep in** | present | it | every bit of the fizz |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, it makes the bottle explode open

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:19-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola:t3:o3:1
# text = No, it makes the bottle explode open
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	explode	explode	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	xcomp	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | it | the bottle |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **explode** | present | the bottle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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No, the gas still fills the space

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:19-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola:t3:o4:1
# text = No, the gas still fills the space
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | present | the gas | the space |  |  | still |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent space=Patient |

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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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