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title: "why's milk white anyway, it's just water innit" Best answer? — Oil and water, and things that won't mix · tree and pragmatics
description: "why's milk white anyway, it's just water innit" Best answer? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 7 «Oil and water, and things that won't mix» 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 2 · ★ · Oil and water, and things that won't mix

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"why's milk white anyway, it's just water innit" Best answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** milk · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** water innit

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 7 «Oil and water, and things that won't mix» 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/7-oil-and-water/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:7-oil-and-water:t2:1
# text = "why's milk white anyway, it's just water innit" Best answer?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | milk *obl:unmarked*; anyway, white *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | milk | water innit and Best answer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Cows only drink white water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:7-oil-and-water:t2:o1:1
# text = Cows only drink white water
1	Cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | present | Cows | white water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It is white because it is cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:7-oil-and-water:t2:o2:1
# text = It is white because it is cold
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | white *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It has white paint added to it at the farm before it is bottled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:7-oil-and-water:t2:o3:1
# text = It has white paint added to it at the farm before it is bottled
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	bottled	bottle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It | white paint |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paint=Patient |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | white paint *not said here* | paint | the farm |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to it=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **bottle** | present · passive |  | paint |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It is an emulsion: tiny fat drops in water scatter light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:7-oil-and-water:t2:o4:1
# text = It is an emulsion: tiny fat drops in water scatter light
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	emulsion	emulsion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	scatter	scat	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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