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Test 6 · Plastics: useful and stubborn

Your mate wants to burn plastic rubbish on the bonfire "to get rid of it". Why not?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: want, burn, get · To what, where: plastic rubbish, bonfire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 29 «Plastics: useful and stubborn» of the chemistry 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Your mate wants to burn plastic rubbish on the bonfire "to get rid of it".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 burn	mark
5	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rubbish	amod
7	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burn	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 bonfire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bonfire	det
10	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burn	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 burn	parataxis
14	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 get	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rid	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Your mate						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	burn not said to happen	to-infinitive	Your mate not said here	plastic rubbish		the bonfire			tree rules
3	get in a quote	to-infinitive						rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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.

Sentence 2: Why not?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Why	advmod
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It gives off poisonous fumes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 gives	compound:prt
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fumes	amod
5	fumes	fume	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give off	present	It	poisonous fumes					vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source fume=Theme

Option 2

It makes the whole bonfire go out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bonfire	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bonfire	amod
5	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the whole bonfire					tree rules
2	go out	infinitive	the whole bonfire not said here					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It makes the fire too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the fire				cold property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material fire=Product

Option 4

It is a waste of good fuel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waste	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 waste	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 waste	det
4	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 fuel	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fuel	amod
7	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a waste				of good fuel	tree rules

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