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title: "opened the jam months ago, it's still fine coz jam lasts forever" — Browning apples, rotting and mould · tree and pragmatics
description: "opened the jam months ago, it's still fine coz jam lasts forever" Test 10 · ★ of lesson 23 «Browning apples, rotting and mould» 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 10 · ★ · Browning apples, rotting and mould

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"opened the jam months ago, it's still fine coz jam lasts forever"

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** it · **What happens:** open, be

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 23 «Browning apples, rotting and mould» 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/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t10:1
# text = "opened the jam months ago, it's still fine coz jam lasts forever"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	coz	coz	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | it |  |  |  | still | forever, last *property* | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Jam truly never goes off once it's made

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t10:o1:1
# text = Jam truly never goes off once it's made
1	Jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go off** | present | Jam |  |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | Jam |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Opened jam still goes mouldy eventually

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t10:o2:1
# text = Opened jam still goes mouldy eventually
1	Opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	mouldy	mouldy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | Opened jam |  |  |  | still | eventually, mouldy *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only strawberry jam goes off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t10:o3:1
# text = Only strawberry jam goes off
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | present | strawberry jam |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Jam turns into honey over time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t10:o4:1
# text = Jam turns into honey over time
1	Jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	time	time	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** | present | Jam |  |  | honey | time |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into honey=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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