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title: Identify the substance whose presence in exhaled breath causes lime… — Gases all around: breath and balloons · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the substance whose presence in exhaled breath causes lime water to become milky. Exam question 1 of lesson 20 «Gases all around: breath and balloons» 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 
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# Exam question 1 · Gases all around: breath and balloons

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Identify the substance whose presence in exhaled breath causes lime water to become milky.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, substance · **What happens:** identify, exhale, cause, become · **To what, where:** lime water

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 20 «Gases all around: breath and balloons» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons:e1:1
# text = Identify the substance whose presence in exhaled breath causes lime water to become milky.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	exhaled	exhale	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **exhale** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cause** | present | the substance | lime water |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition water=Patient |
| 4 | **become** | to-infinitive | the substance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | milky *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nitrogen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons:e1:o1:1
# text = Nitrogen
1	Nitrogen	Nitrogen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Helium

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons:e1:o2:1
# text = Helium
1	Helium	helium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Carbon dioxide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons:e1:o3:1
# text = Carbon dioxide
1	Carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dioxide	dioxide	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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Oxygen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons:e1:o4:1
# text = Oxygen
1	Oxygen	oxygen	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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