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title: Which balloon will still be floating after a week? — Gases all around: breath and balloons · tree and pragmatics
description: Which balloon will still be floating after a week? Test 11 · ★ 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 was wrong.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Gases all around: breath and balloons

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Which balloon will still be floating after a week?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** balloon · **What happens:** float

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 20 «Gases all around: breath and balloons» 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/20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons:t11:1
# text = Which balloon will still be floating after a week?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	floating	float	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | future · progressive | which balloon |  |  |  | still; week |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A balloon blown up with breath

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons:t11:o1:1
# text = A balloon blown up with breath
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow up** | participle |  | a balloon *not said here* |  |  |  | with breath | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with breath=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A water balloon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons:t11:o2:1
# text = A water balloon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	balloon	balloon	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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A rubber helium balloon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons:t11:o3:1
# text = A rubber helium balloon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	helium	helium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A foil balloon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons:t11:o4:1
# text = A foil balloon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	foil	foil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	balloon	balloon	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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