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title: Someone opens a bottle of perfume in a corner, and soon the whole ro… — Solids, liquids and gases · tree and pragmatics
description: Someone opens a bottle of perfume in a corner, and soon the whole room smells of it. Why? Test 5 of lesson 11 «Solids, liquids and gases» of the world 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 · Solids, liquids and gases

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Someone opens a bottle of perfume in a corner, and soon the whole room smells of it. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Someone, whole room · **What happens:** open, smell · **To what, where:** bottle, corner

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This is test 5 of lesson 11 «Solids, liquids and gases» of the world 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/world/11-solids-liquids-gases/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Someone opens a bottle of perfume in a corner, and soon the whole room smells of it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:11-solids-liquids-gases:t5:1
# text = Someone opens a bottle of perfume in a corner, and soon the whole room smells of it.
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | Someone | a bottle of perfume |  | a corner |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme in corner=Location |
| 2 | **smell** | present | the whole room |  |  |  |  | of corner; soon *property* | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of it=Theme |

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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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:11-solids-liquids-gases:t5:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The perfume turns into a solid powder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:11-solids-liquids-gases:t5:o1:1
# text = The perfume turns into a solid powder
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | the perfume |  |  | a solid powder |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into powder=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The room gets warmer from the perfume

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:11-solids-liquids-gases:t5:o2:1
# text = The room gets warmer from the perfume
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | the room |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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

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The perfume gas spreads out to fill the room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:11-solids-liquids-gases:t5:o3:1
# text = The perfume gas spreads out to fill the room
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread out** | present | the perfume gas |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | to-infinitive | the perfume gas *not said here* | the room |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The perfume stays near the bottle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:11-solids-liquids-gases:t5:o4:1
# text = The perfume stays near the bottle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bottle	bottle	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** | present | the perfume |  |  | the bottle |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near bottle=Location |

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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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