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title: milk smells fine but it's way past the date, drink it? — Smells that warn · tree and pragmatics
description: milk smells fine but it's way past the date, drink it? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 13 «Smells that warn» of the everyday 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 · ★ · Smells that warn

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milk smells fine but it's way past the date, drink it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** milk · **What happens:** smell, be, drink · **To what, where:** way, milk

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 13 «Smells that warn» of the everyday 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/everyday/13-smells-that-warn/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:13-smells-that-warn:t11:1
# text = milk smells fine but it's way past the date, drink it?
1	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	past	past	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | present | milk |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | milk | way |  |  |  | past the date | tree rules |
| 3 | **drink** | infinitive |  | milk |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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When in doubt, throw it out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:13-smells-that-warn:t11:o1:1
# text = When in doubt, throw it out
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw out** | imperative | you *not said here* | doubt |  | doubt |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in doubt=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, smell is always a safe test

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:13-smells-that-warn:t11:o2:1
# text = Yes, smell is always a safe test
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | smell | a safe test |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, just boil it a bit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:13-smells-that-warn:t11:o3:1
# text = Yes, just boil it a bit
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	boil	boil	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | a bit *obl:unmarked* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, if it looks white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:13-smells-that-warn:t11:o4:1
# text = Yes, if it looks white
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | it |  |  |  |  | white *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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