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description: If you threw half a dried apricot and half a fresh apricot into a warm damp cupboard, which would grow mould first? Test 11 · ★ 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 opti
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# Test 11 · ★ · Browning apples, rotting and mould

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If you threw half a dried apricot and half a fresh apricot into a warm damp cupboard, which would grow mould first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, warm damp cupboard · **What happens:** throw, dry, grow · **To what, where:** dried apricot, warm damp cupboard, mould

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t11:1
# text = If you threw half a dried apricot and half a fresh apricot into a warm damp cupboard, which would grow mould first?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	apricot	apricot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	apricot	apricot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | you | half dried apricot and half fresh apricot |  |  |  | into a warm damp cupboard *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer apricot=Theme into cupboard=Result |
| 2 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | would | a warm damp cupboard | mould |  |  |  | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mould=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 {#o1}

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Neither, apricots never grow mould

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t11:o1:1
# text = Neither, apricots never grow mould
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	apricots	apricot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grow** | present | apricots | mould |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mould=Theme |

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

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The fresh one, it has more water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t11:o2:1
# text = The fresh one, it has more water
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the fresh one | more water |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Both at exactly the same time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t11:o3:1
# text = Both at exactly the same time
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The dried one, it has more sugar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t11:o4:1
# text = The dried one, it has more sugar
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | the dried one | more sugar |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |

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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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