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Test 1 · ★ · Recycling: giving materials a second life

Leo: "recycling's the best, so it doesn't matter how much stuff we buy". What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leo, it, we · What happens: be, not matter, buy · To what, where: much stuff

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 32 «Recycling: giving materials a second life» 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: Leo: "recycling's the best, so it doesn't matter how much stuff we buy".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 best	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 best	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 best	punct
4	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 best	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 best	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 best	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 matter	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 matter	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 matter	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 matter	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 matter	advmod
13	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 best	parataxis
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stuff	amod
16	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 matter	obj
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 buy	nsubj
18	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 stuff	acl:relcl
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 buy	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Leo					good property	tree rules
2	not matter in a quote	present · do-support	it	much stuff					tree rules
3	buy in a quote	present	we	much stuff not said here					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=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.

Sentence 2: What's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Buying more helps the recyclers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 helps	csubj
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Buying	obj
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 recyclers	det
5	recyclers	recycler	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 helps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	gerund		more					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
2	help	present	Buying	the recyclers					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recycler=Beneficiary

Option 2

Recycling is worse than landfill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worse	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 worse	cop
3	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 landfill	case
5	landfill	landfill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worse	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Recycling					than landfill; bad property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Using less is better than recycling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 better	csubj
2	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Using	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 recycling	case
6	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		less					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Patient
2	is	present	Using					than recycling; good property	tree rules

Option 4

He's right, recycling uses no energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 uses	punct
5	recycling	recycle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 uses	nsubj
6	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 energy	det
8	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	recycle	gerund							tree rules
3	use	present		no energy					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient

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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