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title: A yoghurt is two days past "use by" and the biscuits are a month pas… — Browning apples, rotting and mould · tree and pragmatics
description: A yoghurt is two days past "use by" and the biscuits are a month past "best before". Which should you be more careful with? Test 4 · ★ 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 ea
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# Test 4 · ★ · Browning apples, rotting and mould

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A yoghurt is two days past "use by" and the biscuits are a month past "best before". Which should you be more careful with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** yoghurt, biscuits · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** month past · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A yoghurt is two days past "use by" and the biscuits are a month past "best before".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t4:1
# text = A yoghurt is two days past "use by" and the biscuits are a month past "best before".
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	yoghurt	yoghurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	nsubj	_	_
20	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a yoghurt |  |  |  | day | past *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the biscuits | a month past |  |  |  |  | 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:* Which should you be more careful with?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t4:2
# text = Which should you be more careful with?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | should |  |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The biscuits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t4:o1:1
# text = The biscuits
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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The yoghurt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t4:o2:1
# text = The yoghurt
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	yoghurt	yoghurt	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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Both must be eaten at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t4:o3:1
# text = Both must be eaten at once
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | must · passive |  | Both |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Both are equally fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t4:o4:1
# text = Both are equally fine
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Both |  |  |  |  | equally, fine *property* | tree rules |

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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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