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title: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises past… — Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises pasteurisation? Exam question 2 of lesson 3 «Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 2 · Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises pasteurisation?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** follow, characteris · **To what, where:** pasteurisation

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 3 «Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/3-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:3-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy:e2:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises pasteurisation?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	pasteurisation	pasteurisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | pasteurisation |  |  |  | of the following statements; accurately *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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The freezing of milk for prolonged storage in cold warehouses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:3-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy:e2:o1:1
# text = The freezing of milk for prolonged storage in cold warehouses
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	prolonged	prolong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	storage	storage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	warehouses	warehouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prolong** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **freeze** |  | milk |  |  |  |  | for prolonged storage in cold warehouses | nom freezing «process intransitive»: of=agent for=obl |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The addition of water to milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:3-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy:e2:o2:1
# text = The addition of water to milk
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The brief heating of milk in order to destroy harmful germs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:3-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy:e2:o3:1
# text = The brief heating of milk in order to destroy harmful germs
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brief	brief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	heating	heating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
10	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | to-infinitive |  | harmful germs |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Patient |
| 2 | **heat** |  | milk |  |  |  |  |  | nom heating «process intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The removal of all fat from milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:3-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy:e2:o4:1
# text = The removal of all fat from milk
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	removal	removal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** |  |  | all fat from milk |  |  |  |  | nom removal «act transitive»: of=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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