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title: What would happen to milk left on the kitchen table all day instead… — Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and he… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to milk left on the kitchen table all day instead of in the fridge? Test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 6 · ★★★ · Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps

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What would happen to milk left on the kitchen table all day instead of in the fridge?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** happen, leave · **To what, where:** milk, kitchen table

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This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» of the technology 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/technology/10-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:10-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps:t6:1
# text = What would happen to milk left on the kitchen table all day instead of in the fridge?
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	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  | milk |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  | milk *not said here* |  | the kitchen table | day | instead the fridge | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Germs would grow faster and it would go off sooner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:10-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps:t6:o1:1
# text = Germs would grow faster and it would go off sooner
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | Germs |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go off** | would | it |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would stay fresh for even longer out in the open air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:10-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps:t6:o2:1
# text = It would stay fresh for even longer out in the open air
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	obl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay out** | would | It |  |  | the open air |  | fresh *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing at all, milk never goes off however warm it is

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:10-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps:t6:o3:1
# text = Nothing at all, milk never goes off however warm it is
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	however	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Nothing |  | all |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **go off** | present | milk |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **warm** | infinitive | milk *not said here* | milk |  |  |  | however *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would slowly turn into safe yoghurt by the evening

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:10-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps:t6:o4:1
# text = It would slowly turn into safe yoghurt by the evening
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	yoghurt	yoghurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

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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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