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title: What would happen if you used ice-cold water to make a strong syrup? — Mixing and dissolving · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you used ice-cold water to make a strong syrup? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Mixing and dissolving» 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 3 · ★★ · Mixing and dissolving

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What would happen if you used ice-cold water to make a strong syrup?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, use, make · **To what, where:** ice cold water, strong syrup

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Mixing and dissolving» 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/6-mixing-and-dissolving/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:6-mixing-and-dissolving:t3:1
# text = What would happen if you used ice-cold water to make a strong syrup?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	syrup	syrup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | ice cold water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a strong syrup |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset syrup=Product |

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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 sugar would freeze into ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:6-mixing-and-dissolving:t3:o1:1
# text = The sugar would freeze into ice
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | would | the sugar |  |  | ice |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Much less sugar would dissolve, and slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:6-mixing-and-dissolving:t3:o2:1
# text = Much less sugar would dissolve, and slowly
1	Much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dissolve** | would | less sugar |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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More sugar would dissolve than in hot water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:6-mixing-and-dissolving:t3:o3:1
# text = More sugar would dissolve than in hot water
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dissolve** | would | More sugar |  |  |  |  | than hot water | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would turn into honey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:6-mixing-and-dissolving:t3:o4:1
# text = It would turn into honey
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	honey	honey	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** | would | It |  |  | honey |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into honey=Trajectory |

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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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