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Test 3 · ★★ · Metals, mining and what they cost

Your old phone sits in a drawer. Why might recycling it help?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old phone · What happens: sit, recycle, help · To what, where: drawer, phone

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Your old phone sits in a drawer.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 phone	nmod:poss
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 phone	amod
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sits	nsubj
4	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 drawer	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 drawer	det
7	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sits	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	Your old phone			a drawer			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in drawer=Location

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.

Sentence 2: Why might recycling it help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 recycling	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 recycling	aux
3	recycling	recycle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 recycling	obj
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 recycling	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 recycling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recycle	might		phone					tree rules
2	help	infinitive							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its metals can be reused without mining new ore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 metals	nmod:poss
2	metals	metal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reused	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 reused	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 reused	aux:pass
5	reused	reuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 mining	mark
7	mining	mine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 reused	advcl
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ore	amod
9	ore	ore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mining	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reuse	can · passive		Its metals					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	mine	gerund		new ore					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ore=Theme

Option 2

Old phones make more lithium on their own over time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 phones	amod
2	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 lithium	amod
5	lithium	lithium	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	obl
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 time	case
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Old phones	more lithium		phones's own	time		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lithium=Product

Option 3

Phones turn back into rock if left in drawers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 turn	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 rock	case
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 left	mark
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 turn	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 drawers	case
9	drawers	drawer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	present	Phones			rock			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	leave a condition, not said to happen	participle	Phones not said here					in drawers result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in drawer=Result

Option 4

Recycling makes the phone radioactive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 radioactive	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 radioactive	compound
5	radioactive	radioactive	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Recycling	the phone radioactive					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset radioactive=Product

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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