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title: will sugar dissolve quicker in hot tea or cold — Materials and their properties · tree and pragmatics
description: will sugar dissolve quicker in hot tea or cold Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Materials and their properties» 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 right.
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Materials and their properties

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will sugar dissolve quicker in hot tea or cold

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sugar · **What happens:** dissolve · **To what, where:** hot tea

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Materials and their properties» 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/18-materials-and-properties/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:18-materials-and-properties:t11:1
# text = will sugar dissolve quicker in hot tea or cold
1	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	quicker	quick	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dissolve** | future | sugar |  |  | hot tea |  | quick *property* | vn break-45.1 «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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It won't dissolve in either

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:18-materials-and-properties:t11:o1:1
# text = It won't dissolve in either
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	_
6	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dissolve** | future | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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In hot tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:18-materials-and-properties:t11:o2:1
# text = In hot tea
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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In cold tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:18-materials-and-properties:t11:o3:1
# text = In cold tea
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Just the same in both

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:18-materials-and-properties:t11:o4:1
# text = Just the same in both
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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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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