Exam question 4 · Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★

State which ordering of waste practices is recommended.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: recommend · To what, where: State

This is exam question 4 of lesson 37 «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 recommended	nsubj:pass
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 ordering	det
3	ordering	ordering	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	nmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 practices	case
5	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 practices	compound
6	practices	practice	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ordering	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 recommended	aux:pass
8	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 recommended	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recommend	present · passive		State which ordering of waste practices					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

Landfill, then recycle, then reduce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Landfill	landfill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recycle	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Landfill	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 recycle	advmod
4	recycle	recycle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reduce	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 reduce	advmod
7	reduce	reduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 recycle	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recycle	infinitive	Landfill				then		tree rules
2	reduce	infinitive	Landfill not said here				then		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Reduce, then reuse, then recycle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reduce	reduce	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reuse	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 reuse	advmod
4	reuse	reuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Reduce	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 recycle	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 recycle	advmod
7	recycle	recycle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Reduce	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	reduce	imperative	you not said here		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer
2	reuse	infinitive	you not said here	then	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	recycle	infinitive	you not said here	then	tree rules

Option 3

Recycle, then reduce, then reuse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recycle	recycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reduce	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Recycle	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 reduce	advmod
4	reduce	reduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reuse	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 reuse	advmod
7	reuse	reuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reduce	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	infinitive	Recycle				then		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer
2	reuse	infinitive	Recycle not said here				then		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Reuse, then recycle, then reduce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reuse	reuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 recycle	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 recycle	advmod
4	recycle	recycle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Reuse	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reduce	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 reduce	advmod
7	reduce	reduce	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Reuse	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	reuse	imperative	you not said here		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	recycle	infinitive	you not said here	then	tree rules
3	reduce	infinitive		then	vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer

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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