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title: What would happen if you let a saucer of salty water evaporate on a… — Minerals and crystals · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you let a saucer of salty water evaporate on a windowsill? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 50 «Minerals and crystals» of the geography 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 4 · ★★ · Minerals and crystals

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What would happen if you let a saucer of salty water evaporate on a windowsill?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, saucer · **What happens:** happen, let, evaporate · **To what, where:** saucer, windowsill

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 50 «Minerals and crystals» of the geography 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/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:50-minerals-and-crystals:t4:1
# text = What would happen if you let a saucer of salty water evaporate on a windowsill?
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	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	saucer	saucer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	evaporate	evaporate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	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 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a saucer of salty water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **evaporate** | infinitive | a saucer of salty water *not said here* |  |  | a windowsill |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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The salt would slowly turn into quartz

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:50-minerals-and-crystals:t4:o1:1
# text = The salt would slowly turn into quartz
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	quartz	quartz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the salt |  |  | quartz |  | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into quartz=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, salt disappears with the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:50-minerals-and-crystals:t4:o2:1
# text = Nothing, salt disappears with the water
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	disappears	disappear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	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 | **disappear** | present | Nothing salt |  |  |  |  | with the water | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The water would turn into tiny ice crystals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:50-minerals-and-crystals:t4:o3:1
# text = The water would turn into tiny ice crystals
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	crystals	crystal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the water |  |  | tiny ice crystals |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into crystal=Trajectory |

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

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Small cube-shaped salt crystals would grow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:50-minerals-and-crystals:t4:o4:1
# text = Small cube-shaped salt crystals would grow
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	cube	cube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	crystals	crystal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **grow** | would | Small shaped salt crystals |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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