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title: Why can you not just put a clay pot from the art class into the kiln… — Glass and pottery · tree and pragmatics
description: Why can you not just put a clay pot from the art class into the kiln wet and soggy? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 30 «Glass and pottery» 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 11 · ★★ · Glass and pottery

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Why can you not just put a clay pot from the art class into the kiln wet and soggy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not put · **To what, where:** clay pot, art class

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 30 «Glass and pottery» 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/30-glass-and-pottery/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:30-glass-and-pottery:t11:1
# text = Why can you not just put a clay pot from the art class into the kiln wet and soggy?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	kiln	kiln	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	soggy	soggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **put** | can | you | a clay pot |  | the art class |  | into the kiln | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pot=Goal |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The kiln would turn it to mud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:30-glass-and-pottery:t11:o1:1
# text = The kiln would turn it to mud
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kiln	kiln	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the kiln | it |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Wet clay turns into glass in the heat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:30-glass-and-pottery:t11:o2:1
# text = Wet clay turns into glass in the heat
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Wet clay |  |  | glass |  | in the heat | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into glass=Source in heat=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Wet clay never gets hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:30-glass-and-pottery:t11:o3:1
# text = Wet clay never gets hard
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | present | Wet clay |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It must dry first or it may crack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:30-glass-and-pottery:t11:o4:1
# text = It must dry first or it may crack
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | must | It |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **crack** | may | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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