Exam question 1 · Recycling: giving materials a second life

Identify the order of preference expressed in the principle "reduce, reuse, recycle".

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, express, reduce, reuse, recycle, order · To what, where: order, preference, principle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 32 «Recycling: giving materials a second life» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 order	det
3	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 preference	case
5	preference	preference	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 order	nmod
6	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 preference	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 principle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 principle	det
9	principle	principle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 expressed	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 reduce	punct
11	reduce	reduce	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 expressed	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reuse	punct
13	reuse	reuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 reduce	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 recycle	punct
15	recycle	recycle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 reduce	conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 recycle	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the order of preference		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent order=Theme
2	express	participle		preference not said here	the principle	tree rules
3	reduce in a quote	infinitive				vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer
4	reuse in a quote	infinitive				vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	recycle in a quote	infinitive				tree rules
6	order			preference		nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

All three are of strictly equal merit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 merit	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 merit	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 merit	case
5	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	6 equal	advmod
6	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 merit	amod
7	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all three					of equal merit	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Reduction first, reuse second and recycling third

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reduction	reduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reuse	nsubj
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Reduction	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reuse	punct
4	reuse	reuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	second	second	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 reuse	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 recycling	cc
7	recycling	recycle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 reuse	conj
8	third	third	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 recycling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reuse	infinitive	Reduction					second property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	recycle	gerund	Reduction not said here					third property	tree rules

Option 3

Recycling first, reuse second and reduction third

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recycling	recycle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 reuse	advcl
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Recycling	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Recycling	punct
4	reuse	reuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	second	second	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 reuse	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 reduction	cc
7	reduction	reduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reuse	conj
8	third	third	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 reuse	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recycle	gerund	you not said here					first property	tree rules
2	reuse	imperative	you not said here					second, third property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Reuse first, recycling second and reduction third

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reuse	reuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Reuse	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 recycling	punct
4	recycling	recycle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Reuse	advcl
5	second	second	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 recycling	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 reduction	cc
7	reduction	reduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recycling	conj
8	third	third	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 recycling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reuse	imperative	you not said here					first property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	recycle	gerund	you not said here					second, third property	tree rules

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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