Test 18 · ★ · Sharing toys and playing board games fairly

my mate says used batteries can just go in the bin, they're dead anyway. right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, used batteries, batteries · What happens: say, use, go, be · To what, where: bin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 242 «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 batteries	amod
5	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 go	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bin	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bin	det
11	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dead	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dead	nsubj
14	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 dead	cop
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 go	parataxis
16	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	15 dead	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
18	right	right	INTJ	_	8 go	discourse
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	use	participle				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	can	used batteries	the bin		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bin=Location
4	is	present	batteries = battery		anyway, dead property	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

Yes, but only the small ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 ones	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 ones	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ones	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Yes, if you wrap them up in paper first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 wrap	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wrap	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 wrap	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wrap	nsubj
5	wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrap	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 wrap	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 paper	case
9	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrap	obl
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 wrap	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap up	present	you	them = they		paper		first property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in paper=Destination

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

No, they can leak or catch fire; use battery recycling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 leak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leak	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 leak	aux
5	leak	leak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 catch	cc
7	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 leak	conj
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catch	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 use	punct
10	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 leak	conj
11	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 recycling	compound
12	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	leak	can	they		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	catch	infinitive	they not said here	fire	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
3	use	infinitive	they not said here	battery recycling	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recycling=Patient

Option 4

Yes, dead batteries are totally harmless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 batteries	amod
4	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 harmless	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 harmless	cop
6	totally	totally	ADV	_	7 harmless	advmod
7	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	dead batteries					harmless, totally property	tree rules

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