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title: "milk's been on the windowsill all day, it's lumpy and stinks. what… — Milk, cheese and yoghurt · tree and pragmatics
description: "milk's been on the windowsill all day, it's lumpy and stinks. what happened?" Test 1 · ★ of lesson 22 «Milk, cheese and yoghurt» 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 1 · ★ · Milk, cheese and yoghurt

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"milk's been on the windowsill all day, it's lumpy and stinks. what happened?"

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** milk, windowsill · **What happens:** be, stink, happen · **To what, where:** windowsill · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 22 «Milk, cheese and yoghurt» 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/22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt:t1:1
# text = "milk's been on the windowsill all day, it's lumpy and stinks. what happened?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	lumpy	lumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	stinks	stink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
18	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | milk |  |  | the windowsill | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the windowsill |  |  |  |  | lumpy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stink** *in a quote* | present | the windowsill *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **happen** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Bacteria made acid that clumped it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt:t1:o1:1
# text = Bacteria made acid that clumped it
1	Bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	clumped	clump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **clump** | past | made acid | acid |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Flies laid eggs in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt:t1:o2:1
# text = Flies laid eggs in it
1	Flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It froze and thawed in the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt:t1:o3:1
# text = It froze and thawed in the sun
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	froze	freeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	thawed	thaw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | past | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **thaw** | participle |  |  |  | the sun |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Air turned it into cheese wax

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt:t1:o4:1
# text = Air turned it into cheese wax
1	Air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wax	wax	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** | past | Air | it |  | cheese wax |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into wax=Trajectory |

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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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