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title: "Marie Curie's old notebooks are just paper, read them anywhere". Wh… — Famous discoveries told as stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Marie Curie's old notebooks are just paper, read them anywhere". What's true? Test 11 of lesson 35 «Famous discoveries told as stories» 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.
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# Test 11 · Famous discoveries told as stories

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"Marie Curie's old notebooks are just paper, read them anywhere". What's true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** old notebooks · **What happens:** be, read · **To what, where:** paper, notebooks

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This is test 11 of lesson 35 «Famous discoveries told as stories» 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/35-famous-discoveries-stories/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Marie Curie's old notebooks are just paper, read them anywhere".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t11:1
# text = "Marie Curie's old notebooks are just paper, read them anywhere".
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Marie	Marie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Curie	Curie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	notebooks	notebook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Marie's old notebooks | paper |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | notebooks *= notebook* |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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's true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t11:2
# 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	_	_
```

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| # | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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They are still radioactive and kept with care

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t11:o1:1
# text = They are still radioactive and kept with care
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	radioactive	radioactive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  | still | radioactive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | participle | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with care | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They glow in the dark like torches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t11:o2:1
# text = They glow in the dark like torches
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	glow	glow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | present | They |  |  | the dark |  | like torches | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They are ordinary paper, safe anywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t11:o3:1
# text = They are ordinary paper, safe anywhere
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
7	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | ordinary paper |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They were all burnt long ago

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t11:o4:1
# text = They were all burnt long ago
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burnt** | past · passive |  | They |  |  |  | ago, all *property* | tree rules |

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