--- title: Ben says food colouring makes red icing taste of strawberries. What'… — Dyes, inks and colouring · tree and pragmatics description: Ben says food colouring makes red icing taste of strawberries. What's true? Test 8 of lesson 27 «Dyes, inks and colouring» 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/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/) / [Dyes, inks and colouring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/) / t8 # Test 8 · Dyes, inks and colouring Ben says food colouring makes red icing taste of strawberries. What's true? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ben, food colouring · **What happens:** say, make, taste, be · **To what, where:** red icing taste, strawberries · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 of lesson 27 «Dyes, inks and colouring» 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/27-dyes-inks-colouring/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Ben says food colouring makes red icing taste of strawberries. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:27-dyes-inks-colouring:t8:1 # text = Ben says food colouring makes red icing taste of strawberries. 1 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 colouring colouring NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 icing icing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 strawberries strawberry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ben | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **make** | present | food colouring | red icing taste of strawberries | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset taste=Product | | 3 | **taste** | | | strawberries | | | | | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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's true? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:27-dyes-inks-colouring:t8:2 # text = What's true? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Colouring makes icing sour ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:27-dyes-inks-colouring:t8:o1:1 # text = Colouring makes icing sour 1 Colouring colouring NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 icing icing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 sour sour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Colouring | icing | | | | sour *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset icing=Product | ### Option 2 {#o2} He's right, red always tastes of strawberry ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:27-dyes-inks-colouring:t8:o2:1 # text = He's right, red always tastes of strawberry 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 7 advmod _ _ 7 tastes taste VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 strawberry strawberry NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | He | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | He *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **taste** | present | He *not said here* | | | | | of strawberry; always *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Colouring adds looks, not taste ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:27-dyes-inks-colouring:t8:o3:1 # text = Colouring adds looks, not taste 1 Colouring colouring NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 looks look NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Colouring | looks and taste | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Colouring makes icing taste of beetroot ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:27-dyes-inks-colouring:t8:o4:1 # text = Colouring makes icing taste of beetroot 1 Colouring colouring NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 icing icing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 beetroot beetroot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Colouring | icing taste of beetroot | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset taste=Product | | 2 | **taste** | | | beetroot | | | | | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient | **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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