Test 1 · Bottles, cans and recycling

«chucked the old batteries in the recycling, it's all recycling innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: recycling · What happens: chuck, recycle innit, be · To what, where: old batteries, recycling · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 4 «Bottles, cans and recycling» of the technology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 chucked	punct
2	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 batteries	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 batteries	amod
5	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chucked	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 recycling	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 recycling	det
8	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 recycling	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 recycling	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 recycling	aux
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 recycling	advmod
13	recycling	recycle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 chucked	advcl
14	innit	innit	ADP	_	13 recycling	compound:prt
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 recycling	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 recycling	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 chucked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chuck in a quote	past		the old batteries	the recycling		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent battery=Theme in recycling=Destination
2	recycle innit in a quote	present · progressive	recycling			all property	tree rules
3	is	present				right 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

Batteries should go down the drain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 drain	det
6	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	should	Batteries	the drain				down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, batteries can start fires in lorries and plants; use battery bins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 batteries	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 start	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 start	aux
5	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 start	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 lorries	case
8	lorries	lorry	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fires	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 plants	cc
10	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lorries	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
12	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 start	conj
13	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bins	compound
14	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	can	batteries	fires		lorries and plants			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality
2	use	infinitive	batteries not said here	battery bins					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Patient

Option 3

Dead batteries are safe in any bin at all, as they have no power left

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 batteries	amod
2	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 safe	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	cop
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bin	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 bin	det
7	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 safe	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 bin	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 have	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 power	det
15	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
16	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 power	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Dead batteries		any bin at all	safe property	tree rules
2	have	present	batteries = battery	no power			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
3	leave	participle		no power not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, batteries go in with cans and paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 cans	case
7	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 paper	cc
9	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cans	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in	present	batteries					with cans and paper	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with can=Beneficiary

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