Test 6 · ★ · Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals

Why are plastic bags knotted before being put away?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: knot, put away · To what, where: plastic bags

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 114 «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» of the everyday 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 knotted	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 knotted	aux:pass
3	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bags	amod
4	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 knotted	nsubj:pass
5	knotted	knot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 put	mark
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 put	aux:pass
8	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 knotted	xcomp
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 put	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 knotted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knot	present · passive		plastic bags					tree rules
2	put away	gerund · passive						away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»

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 · ✓ the right answer

A knotted bag cannot easily be pulled over a child's head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bag	det
2	knotted	knot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bag	amod
3	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulled	nsubj:pass
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 pulled	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 pulled	advmod
6	easily	easily	ADV	_	8 pulled	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 pulled	aux:pass
8	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	over	over	ADP	_	13 head	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 head	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 child	case
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knot	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	not pull	can · passive		a knotted bag		a child's head		easily property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A knot makes the bag smaller to carry shopping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knot	det
2	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bag	det
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 carry	mark
8	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 smaller	xcomp
9	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a knot	the bag				small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bag=Product
2	carry	to-infinitive	the bag not said here	shopping					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shopping=Theme

Option 3

Knotted bags are easier to recycle at the supermarket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knotted	knot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bags	amod
2	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 easier	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 easier	cop
4	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 recycle	mark
6	recycle	recycle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 easier	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 supermarket	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 supermarket	det
9	supermarket	supermarket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recycle	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	knot	participle				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	Knotted bags		easy property	tree rules
3	recycle	to-infinitive	Knotted bags not said here	the supermarket		tree rules

Option 4

A knot keeps the bag clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knot	det
2	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bag	det
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	obj
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a knot	the bag				clean property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme

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