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description: It is given that a dish of salt water is permitted to evaporate entirely. Ascertain what remains. Exam question 4 of lesson 13 «Evaporation and condensation» 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 wr
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# Exam question 4 · Evaporation and condensation

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It is given that a dish of salt water is permitted to evaporate entirely. Ascertain what remains.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, permit, evaporate, ascertain, remain · **To what, where:** It, dish

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 13 «Evaporation and condensation» of the world 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/world/13-evaporation-condensation/#e4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that a dish of salt water is permitted to evaporate entirely.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:13-evaporation-condensation:e4:1
# text = It is given that a dish of salt water is permitted to evaporate entirely.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	permitted	permit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	evaporate	evaporate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **permit** | present · passive |  | a dish of salt water |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **evaporate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Ascertain what remains.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:13-evaporation-condensation:e4:2
# text = Ascertain what remains.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **remain** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A diminished quantity of salt water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:13-evaporation-condensation:e4:o1:1
# text = A diminished quantity of salt water
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	diminished	diminish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **diminish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The water alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:13-evaporation-condensation:e4:o2:1
# text = The water alone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

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

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The salt alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:13-evaporation-condensation:e4:o3:1
# text = The salt alone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing whatsoever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:13-evaporation-condensation:e4:o4:1
# text = Nothing whatsoever
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

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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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