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title: "mentos + coke = kitchen explosion, my mate's kitchen got destroyed"… — Petrol stations, pools and things that… · tree and pragmatics
description: "mentos + coke = kitchen explosion, my mate's kitchen got destroyed" What would really happen in an open bottle? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 23 «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang

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"mentos + coke = kitchen explosion, my mate's kitchen got destroyed" What would really happen in an open bottle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** destroy, happen · **To what, where:** mentos, open bottle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 23 «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths 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/myths/23-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:23-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang:t8:1
# text = "mentos + coke = kitchen explosion, my mate's kitchen got destroyed" What would really happen in an open bottle?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	mentos	mento	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	4	cc	_	_
4	coke	coke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	7	punct	_	_
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	explosion	explosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
13	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	really	really	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | mentos + coke and kitchen explosion and my mate's kitchen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | would |  |  |  | a open bottle |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bottle=Location |

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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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A blast that knocks down the walls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:23-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang:t8:o1:1
# text = A blast that knocks down the walls
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knocks	knock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock down** | present | a blast | the walls |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent wall=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The cola would catch fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:23-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang:t8:o2:1
# text = The cola would catch fire
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | would | the cola | fire |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A fizzy fountain and a sticky mess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:23-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang:t8:o3:1
# text = A fizzy fountain and a sticky mess
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The bottle would fly to the ceiling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:23-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang:t8:o4:1
# text = The bottle would fly to the ceiling
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | would | the bottle |  |  |  |  | to the ceiling *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ceiling=Result |

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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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