Test 4 · ★ · Recycling: giving materials a second life
Grandad says a can thrown away is just a can. What could it become if recycled?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad · What happens: say, throw away, become, recycle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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: Grandad says a can thrown away is just a can.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thrown | det |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 thrown | aux |
| 5 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 says | ccomp |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 thrown | advmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 can | cop |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 can | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 can | det |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 thrown | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Grandad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | throw away | can | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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 it become if recycled?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 become | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 become | nsubj |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 recycled | mark |
| 6 | recycled | recycle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 become | xcomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | could | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | recycle a condition, not said to happen | participle | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, cans cannot be reused
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 cans | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | cans | can | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reused | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 reused | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 reused | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 reused | aux:pass |
| 7 | reused | reuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reuse | can · passive | Nothing cans | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
Option 2
A glass bottle in a year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bottle | det |
| 2 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bottle | compound |
| 3 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bottle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A new tree in a forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tree | amod |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 forest | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A new can in about two months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 can | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 can | amod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 months | case |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 two | advmod |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 months | nummod |
| 7 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 can | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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