Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★

«just chuck the dead batteries in the bin innit, they're empty anyway» What is the honest reply?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, batteries · What happens: chuck, be · To what, where: dead batteries, bin innit, honest reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 37 «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★» 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	«	«	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 innit	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 innit	det
9	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 innit	compound
10	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chuck	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 empty	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 empty	nsubj
13	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 empty	cop
14	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chuck	advcl
15	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	14 empty	advmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 chuck	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 reply	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 reply	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 reply	det
20	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 reply	amod
21	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chuck	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chuck in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the dead batteries	the bin innit		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	batteries = battery			anyway, empty property	tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present		the honest reply			tree rules

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

Fine, as long as you put them in the bin when it rains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Fine	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 put	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 put	nsubj
7	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 put	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bin	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bin	det
11	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 rains	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rains	nsubj
14	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 put	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present	you	them = they		the bin			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in bin=Destination
2	rain	present	it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 2

No, old batteries should go on the garden bonfire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 batteries	amod
4	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 bonfire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bonfire	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bonfire	compound
10	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	should	old batteries			the garden bonfire			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bonfire=Location

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

No: they belong in collection boxes, as they can leak and start fires

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 :	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 belong	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 belong	nsubj
4	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 boxes	case
6	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boxes	compound
7	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 belong	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 leak	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 leak	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 leak	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 leak	aux
12	leak	leak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 belong	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 start	cc
14	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 leak	conj
15	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	belong	present	they		collection boxes	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	leak	can	boxes = box			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	start	infinitive	boxes = box not said here	fires		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality

Option 4

Fine, dead batteries have nothing left inside them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 batteries	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 batteries	amod
4	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 have	obj
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 nothing	acl
8	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Fine dead batteries	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	leave	participle						inside batteries = battery	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent inside they=Location

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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