Test 3 · ★ · Recycling: giving materials a second life

If everyone threw greasy food tubs into the paper bin, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone, paper bin · What happens: throw, tub, happen · To what, where: greasy food, paper bin

This is test 3 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 threw	mark
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tubs	advcl
4	greasy	greasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obj
6	tubs	tub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 bin	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bin	det
9	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bin	compound
10	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tubs	obl
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	10 bin	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tubs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	throw a condition, not said to happen	past	everyone	greasy food		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	tub	present			the paper bin	tree rules
3	happen	would	the paper bin			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

Paper would recycle faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 recycle	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 recycle	aux
3	recycle	recycle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 recycle	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recycle	would	Paper					fast property	tree rules

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

Loads of paper could be spoiled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spoiled	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 paper	case
3	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Loads	nmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 spoiled	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 spoiled	aux:pass
6	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spoil	could · passive		Loads of paper					tree rules

Option 3

The grease would clean the paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grease	det
2	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clean	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 clean	aux
4	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 paper	det
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	would	the grease	the paper					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent paper=Patient

Option 4

The tubs would turn to paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tubs	det
2	tubs	tub	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 paper	mark
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the tubs	paper					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme paper=Result

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