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description: Little cousin is about to put washing-up liquid in the dishwasher "to make it cleaner". What happens? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Soap and why washing works» 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 
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# Test 3 · ★★ · Soap and why washing works

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Little cousin is about to put washing-up liquid in the dishwasher "to make it cleaner". What happens?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Little cousin · **What happens:** be, put, make, happen · **To what, where:** washing liquid, dishwasher, liquid · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Soap and why washing works» 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/24-soap-and-why-washing-works/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Little cousin is about to put washing-up liquid in the dishwasher "to make it cleaner".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:24-soap-and-why-washing-works:t3:1
# text = Little cousin is about to put washing-up liquid in the dishwasher "to make it cleaner".
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
10	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dishwasher	dishwasher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Little cousin |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | to-infinitive | Little cousin *not said here* | washing liquid |  | the dishwasher |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent liquid=Theme in dishwasher=Destination |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | liquid |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary cleaner=Product |

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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:* What happens?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:24-soap-and-why-washing-works:t3:2
# text = What happens?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The dishes come out extra clean and shiny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:24-soap-and-why-washing-works:t3:o1:1
# text = The dishes come out extra clean and shiny
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | present | the dishes |  |  |  |  | clean, extra, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Foam overflows out of the machine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:24-soap-and-why-washing-works:t3:o2:1
# text = Foam overflows out of the machine
1	Foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	overflows	overflow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overflow** | present | Foam |  |  | the machine |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The machine works twice as fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:24-soap-and-why-washing-works:t3:o3:1
# text = The machine works twice as fast
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | the machine |  |  |  |  | fast, twice *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing happens at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:24-soap-and-why-washing-works:t3:o4:1
# text = Nothing happens at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | Nothing |  |  | all |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location |

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