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title: What would happen if a cola can had a thin flat bottom instead of a… — Bottles, cans and recycling · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a cola can had a thin flat bottom instead of a dome? Test 5 of lesson 4 «Bottles, cans and recycling» 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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# Test 5 · Bottles, cans and recycling

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What would happen if a cola can had a thin flat bottom instead of a dome?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cola · **What happens:** happen, have · **To what, where:** thin flat bottom

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This is test 5 of lesson 4 «Bottles, cans and recycling» 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/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:4-bottles-cans-and-recycling:t5:1
# text = What would happen if a cola can had a thin flat bottom instead of a dome?
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	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | a cola | a thin flat bottom |  |  |  | instead a dome | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It would stay fizzy for ever, even after opening

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:4-bottles-cans-and-recycling:t5:o1:1
# text = It would stay fizzy for ever, even after opening
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	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | would | It |  |  |  |  | fizzy *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It could bulge from the gas pressure inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:4-bottles-cans-and-recycling:t5:o2:1
# text = It could bulge from the gas pressure inside
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bulge	bulge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bulge** | could | It |  |  | the gas pressure |  | inside *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The cola inside it would taste a lot sweeter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:4-bottles-cans-and-recycling:t5:o3:1
# text = The cola inside it would taste a lot sweeter
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | would | the cola inside it | a lot |  |  |  | sweet *property* | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme lot=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would hold twice as much cola as a normal can

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:4-bottles-cans-and-recycling:t5:o4:1
# text = It would hold twice as much cola as a normal can
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	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | would | It | much cola |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cola=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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