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title: "my bubbles keep popping straight away". What could help? — Soap and why washing works · tree and pragmatics
description: "my bubbles keep popping straight away". What could help? Test 7 · ★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★★ · Soap and why washing works

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"my bubbles keep popping straight away". What could help?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bubbles · **What happens:** keep, pop, help

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This is test 7 · ★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "my bubbles keep popping straight away".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:24-soap-and-why-washing-works:t7:1
# text = "my bubbles keep popping straight away".
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	popping	pop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | my bubbles |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pop** *in a quote* | gerund | my bubbles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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 could help?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:24-soap-and-why-washing-works:t7:2
# text = What could help?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Blow much, much harder and faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:24-soap-and-why-washing-works:t7:o1:1
# text = Blow much, much harder and faster
1	Blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Add a spoon of salt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:24-soap-and-why-washing-works:t7:o2:1
# text = Add a spoon of salt
1	Add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | a spoon of salt |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Add a little glycerine or sugar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:24-soap-and-why-washing-works:t7:o3:1
# text = Add a little glycerine or sugar
1	Add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	glycerine	glycerine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | a little glycerine or sugar |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glycerine=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Use only plain cold tap water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:24-soap-and-why-washing-works:t7:o4:1
# text = Use only plain cold tap water
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | plain cold tap water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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