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title: The ice cream melted on the drive home and Dad refroze it. Why is it… — Milk, cheese and yoghurt · tree and pragmatics
description: The ice cream melted on the drive home and Dad refroze it. Why is it now crunchy? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Milk, cheese and yoghurt

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The ice cream melted on the drive home and Dad refroze it. Why is it now crunchy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ice cream, cream · **What happens:** melt, refreeze, be · **To what, where:** ice cream, drive home, it

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* The ice cream melted on the drive home and Dad refroze it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt:t9:1
# text = The ice cream melted on the drive home and Dad refroze it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	drive	drive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	refroze	refreeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | participle |  | the ice cream *not said here* |  | the drive home and Dad |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **refreeze** | past | the ice cream | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* Why is it now crunchy?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt:t9:2
# text = Why is it now crunchy?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	crunchy	crunchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | cream |  |  |  | now | crunchy *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The car heat turned it to butter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt:t9:o1:1
# text = The car heat turned it to butter
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the car heat | it |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Air got into the tub

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt:t9:o2:1
# text = Air got into the tub
1	Air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Air |  |  | the tub |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into tub=Destination |

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

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Big ice crystals formed as it refroze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt:t9:o3:1
# text = Big ice crystals formed as it refroze
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	crystals	crystal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	refroze	refreeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | participle |  | Big ice crystals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **refreeze** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The sugar went off in the car

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt:t9:o4:1
# text = The sugar went off in the car
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past | the sugar |  |  | the car |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in car=Location |

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