Test 8 · ★★ · Glass and pottery

If people stopped recycling bottles, what would be needed more?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: stop, recycle, need · To what, where: recycling bottles

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 30 «Glass and pottery» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 stopped	mark
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	recycling	recycle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bottles	amod
5	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stopped	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 needed	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 needed	nsubj:pass
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 needed	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 needed	aux:pass
10	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bottles	acl:relcl
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 needed	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	past	people	recycling bottles	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector bottle=Eventuality
2	recycle	gerund			tree rules
3	need	would · passive		recycling bottles	tree rules

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

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Sand and energy to make new glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 energy	cc
3	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sand	conj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sand	acl
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 glass	amod
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		new glass					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glass=Product

Option 2

More clay for new mugs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 clay	amod
2	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 mugs	case
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mugs	amod
5	mugs	mug	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clay	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Less of anything at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 anything	case
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Less	obl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 anything	nmod

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

Option 4

Much more oil for making new plastic bottles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Much	much	ADV	_	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 oil	amod
3	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 making	mark
5	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 oil	acl
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bottles	amod
7	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bottles	amod
8	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	more oil not said here	new plastic bottles					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bottle=Product

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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