Test 11 · ★★ · Metals, mining and what they cost

Why do aluminium can recycling bins matter?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: aluminium · What happens: recycle, matter

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Metals, mining and what they cost» of the geography 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	7 matter	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 matter	aux
3	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 matter	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 matter	aux
5	recycling	recycle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 bins	amod
6	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 matter	nsubj
7	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 matter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recycle	gerund							tree rules
2	matter	can · present · do-support	aluminium						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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

Aluminium cannot be recycled at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recycled	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 recycled	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 recycled	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 recycled	aux:pass
5	recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 recycled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not recycle	can · passive		Aluminium		all			tree rules

Option 2

Cans turn into oil when recycled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 oil	case
4	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 recycled	advmod
6	recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 turn	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Cans			oil			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into oil=Trajectory
2	recycle	participle	Cans not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Recycling cans uses more energy than mining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recycling	recycle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 uses	csubj
2	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Recycling	obj
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 energy	amod
5	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 mining	case
7	mining	mining	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recycle	gerund		cans					tree rules
2	use	present	Recycling	more energy				than mining	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Aluminium can be recycled again and again with much less energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recycled	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 recycled	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 recycled	aux:pass
4	recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 recycled	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 again	cc
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 again	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 energy	case
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 less	advmod
10	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 energy	amod
11	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recycled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recycle	can · passive		Aluminium			again	with less energy	tree rules

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