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Test 2 · ★ · Recycling: giving materials a second life

"just chuck the dead batteries in the normal bin, who cares". What could happen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, normal bin · What happens: chuck, care, happen · To what, where: dead batteries, normal bin

This is test 2 · ★ 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: "just chuck the dead batteries in the normal bin, who cares".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 chuck	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 chuck	advmod
3	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 batteries	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 batteries	amod
6	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chuck	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 bin	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bin	det
9	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bin	amod
10	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chuck	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cares	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 cares	nsubj
13	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bin	acl:relcl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 cares	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the dead batteries		the normal bin			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent battery=Theme in bin=Destination
2	care in a quote	present	the normal bin						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: 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: What could happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

They would turn into compost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 compost	case
5	compost	compost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	They			compost			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into compost=Trajectory

Option 2

Nothing, they are completely empty and quite safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 empty	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 empty	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 empty	cop
5	completely	completely	ADV	_	6 empty	advmod
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 safe	cc
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 safe	advmod
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 empty	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					completely, empty property	tree rules
2	be		Nothing not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They could start a fire in the bin lorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 start	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 start	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 lorry	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lorry	det
8	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lorry	compound
9	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 start	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	could	They	a fire		the bin lorry			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality

Option 4

They would charge up again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 charge	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 charge	aux
3	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 charge	compound:prt
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 charge	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge up	would	They				again		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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