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title: You drop washing-up liquid near a floating paperclip and it sinks. W… — Water: the most amazing liquid · tree and pragmatics
description: You drop washing-up liquid near a floating paperclip and it sinks. Why? Test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 34 «Water: the most amazing liquid» 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 6 · ★★★ · Water: the most amazing liquid

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You drop washing-up liquid near a floating paperclip and it sinks. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You, liquid · **What happens:** drop, float, sink · **To what, where:** washing liquid, floating paperclip

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This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 34 «Water: the most amazing liquid» 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/34-water-amazing-liquid/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You drop washing-up liquid near a floating paperclip and it sinks.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:34-water-amazing-liquid:t6:1
# text = You drop washing-up liquid near a floating paperclip and it sinks.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
6	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	paperclip	paperclip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sinks	sink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | present | You | washing liquid |  | a floating paperclip |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent liquid=Theme near paperclip=Destination |
| 2 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sink** | present | liquid |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:34-water-amazing-liquid:t6:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Soap pulls the clip down by magnet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:34-water-amazing-liquid:t6:o1:1
# text = Soap pulls the clip down by magnet
1	Soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull down** | present | Soap | the clip |  |  |  | by magnet | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Soap makes the paperclip heavier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:34-water-amazing-liquid:t6:o2:1
# text = Soap makes the paperclip heavier
1	Soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	paperclip	paperclip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Soap | the paperclip |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset paperclip=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Soap makes the water much colder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:34-water-amazing-liquid:t6:o3:1
# text = Soap makes the water much colder
1	Soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Soap | the water |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product |

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

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Soap weakens the surface skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:34-water-amazing-liquid:t6:o4:1
# text = Soap weakens the surface skin
1	Soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	weakens	weaken	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weaken** | present | Soap | the surface skin |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |

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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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