Test 10 · Metals and what they're good for

If people recycled all metal and stopped throwing it away, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: recycle, stop, throw away, happen · To what, where: metal

This is test 10 of lesson 31 «Metals and what they're good for» 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 recycled	mark
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 recycled	nsubj
3	recycled	recycle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 metal	det
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 recycled	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stopped	cc
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 recycled	conj
8	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stopped	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 throwing	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 throwing	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 happen	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 happen	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 happen	aux
14	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 throwing	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 recycled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	recycle	past	people	all metal		tree rules
2	stop	past	people not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	throw away	gerund	people not said here	metal	away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice

More mining would be needed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 mining	amod
2	mining	mining	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needed	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 needed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 needed	aux:pass
5	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would · passive		More mining					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Less mining would be needed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 mining	amod
2	mining	mining	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needed	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 needed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 needed	aux:pass
5	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would · passive		Less mining					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Metal would run out faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 run	compound:prt
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run out	would	Metal					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Bikes would get heavier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Bikes					heavy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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