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description: a video said ice cream sales and sunburn go up together, so ice cream gives u sunburn. right? Test 13 · ★★★ of lesson 91 «Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 13 · ★★★ · Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a video said ice cream sales and sunburn go up together, so ice cream gives u sunburn. right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** video, cream sales, ice cream, u · **What happens:** say, go up, give, sunburn · **To what, where:** sunburn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★★★ of lesson 91 «Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence» 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/91-being-a-scientist/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:91-being-a-scientist:t13:1
# text = a video said ice cream sales and sunburn go up together, so ice cream gives u sunburn. right?
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sales	sale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
17	u	u	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
20	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a video |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go up** | present | cream sales and sunburn |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **give** | present | ice cream | u's sunburn |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunburn=Theme |
| 4 | **sunburn** |  | u |  |  |  |  |  | nom sunburn «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, ice cream makes skin burn faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:91-being-a-scientist:t13:o1:1
# text = Yes, ice cream makes skin burn faster
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | ice cream | skin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | infinitive | skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, two things happening together does not prove one causes the other

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:91-being-a-scientist:t13:o2:1
# text = No, two things happening together does not prove one causes the other
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	nsubj	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | gerund | two things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **prove** | present · do-support | two things | one |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | present |  | the other |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition other=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, because both happen in summer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:91-being-a-scientist:t13:o3:1
# text = Yes, because both happen in summer
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	both	both	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | both |  |  |  | summer |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, sunburn makes people buy ice cream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:91-being-a-scientist:t13:o4:1
# text = No, sunburn makes people buy ice cream
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | sunburn | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** | infinitive | people *not said here* | ice cream |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cream=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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