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title: "pan's greasy as hell, cold water does nothing" Best fix? — Oil and water, and things that won't mix · tree and pragmatics
description: "pan's greasy as hell, cold water does nothing" Best fix? Test 8 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Oil and water, and things that won't mix

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"pan's greasy as hell, cold water does nothing" Best fix?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** pan, greasy cold water · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** nothing

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:7-oil-and-water:t8:1
# text = "pan's greasy as hell, cold water does nothing" Best fix?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	greasy	greasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	fix	fix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | pan |  |  |  |  | as hell; greasy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present | greasy cold water | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Scrub it with salt and cold water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:7-oil-and-water:t8:o1:1
# text = Scrub it with salt and cold water
1	Scrub	scrub	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scrub** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | with salt and cold water | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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

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Use warm water and soap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:7-oil-and-water:t8:o2:1
# text = Use warm water and soap
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | warm water and soap |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Just wipe it with a dry cloth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:7-oil-and-water:t8:o3:1
# text = Just wipe it with a dry cloth
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	wipe	wipe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wipe** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | with a dry cloth | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Use more cold water, faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:7-oil-and-water:t8:o4:1
# text = Use more cold water, faster
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | more cold water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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