--- title: A pirate game says sailors kept meat fresh for months in barrels of… — Browning apples, rotting and mould · tree and pragmatics description: A pirate game says sailors kept meat fresh for months in barrels of sugar water. What did they really use? Test 8 · ★ 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/) / [Browning apples, rotting and mould](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Browning apples, rotting and mould A pirate game says sailors kept meat fresh for months in barrels of sugar water. What did they really use? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** pirate game, sailors · **What happens:** say, keep, do, use · **To what, where:** meat, barrels · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A pirate game says sailors kept meat fresh for months in barrels of sugar water. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t8:1 # text = A pirate game says sailors kept meat fresh for months in barrels of sugar water. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 pirate pirate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 7 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 barrels barrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a pirate game | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **keep** | past | sailors | meat | | barrels of sugar water | month | fresh *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent meat=Theme in barrel=Location | 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. *Sentence 2:* What did they really use? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t8:2 # text = What did they really use? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present | sailors *= sailor* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Sugar water ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t8:o1:1 # text = Sugar water 1 Sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Ice from home ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t8:o2:1 # text = Ice from home 1 Ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Salt ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t8:o3:1 # text = Salt 1 Salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Fresh river water ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould:t8:o4:1 # text = Fresh river water 1 Fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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