Exam question 1 · Kindness to animals

Identify the principal reason for which plastic drink-pack rings are to be cut before disposal.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, cut · To what, where: principal reason, plastic pack rings

This is exam question 1 of lesson 207 «Kindness to animals» of the everyday 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 cut	obl
7	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rings	amod
8	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pack	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 drink	punct
10	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rings	compound
11	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cut	nsubj:pass
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 cut	aux:pass
13	to	to	PART	_	15 cut	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 cut	aux:pass
15	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 disposal	case
17	disposal	disposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cut	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	cut	present · passive	you not said here	plastic pack rings			before disposal	for the principal reason	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for which=Beneficiary

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

Cut plastic decays more rapidly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decays	compound
3	decays	decay	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cut	obj
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 rapidly	advmod
5	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	1 Cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here	plastic decays				rapidly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset decay=Product

Option 2

Cut rings may be recycled for money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rings	compound
2	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 recycled	nsubj:pass
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 recycled	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 recycled	aux:pass
5	recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 money	case
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recycled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	infinitive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	recycle	may · passive		Cut rings				for money	tree rules

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

Animals may become trapped in them by the neck, beak or legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 become	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trapped	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 neck	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 neck	det
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trapped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 beak	punct
11	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 neck	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 legs	cc
13	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 neck	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	may	Animals						tree rules
2	trap	participle	Animals not said here					in Animals = animal; by the neck and beak or legs	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in they=Destination

Option 4

Uncut rings occupy too much room in bins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncut	uncut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rings	amod
2	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 occupy	nsubj
3	occupy	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 room	amod
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occupy	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 bins	case
8	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 room	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occupy	present	Uncut rings	much room		bins			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus room=Experiencer

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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