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title: You put a can of normal cola and a can of diet cola in a bowl of wat… — Floating in the real world: ice, subma… · tree and pragmatics
description: You put a can of normal cola and a can of diet cola in a bowl of water. What happens? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 12 «Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons

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You put a can of normal cola and a can of diet cola in a bowl of water. What happens?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** put, happen · **To what, where:** normal cola, bowl

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 12 «Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons» of the physics 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/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You put a can of normal cola and a can of diet cola in a bowl of water.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:12-ice-submarines-and-balloons:t5:1
# text = You put a can of normal cola and a can of diet cola in a bowl of water.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	diet	diet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | You | a normal cola |  | a bowl of water |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cola=Theme in bowl=Destination |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What happens?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:12-ice-submarines-and-balloons:t5:2
# text = What happens?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Both float on the top, because the cans are full of air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:12-ice-submarines-and-balloons:t5:o1:1
# text = Both float on the top, because the cans are full of air
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | present | Both |  |  | the top |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present | the cans |  |  |  |  | of air; full *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The normal one floats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:12-ice-submarines-and-balloons:t5:o2:1
# text = The normal one floats
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | present | the normal one |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Both sink to the bottom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:12-ice-submarines-and-balloons:t5:o3:1
# text = Both sink to the bottom
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sink	sink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | present | Both |  |  |  |  | to the bottom | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The diet one floats and the normal one sinks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:12-ice-submarines-and-balloons:t5:o4:1
# text = The diet one floats and the normal one sinks
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	diet	diet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sinks	sink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | present | the diet one |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sink** | present | the normal one |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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