Test 3 · Bottles, cans and recycling

«bottled water's way cleaner than tap, everyone knows» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: bottle, know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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	_	6 cleaner	punct
2	bottled	bottle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 water	case
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cleaner	obl:unmarked
6	cleaner	clean	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 tap	case
8	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cleaner	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knows	punct
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 knows	nsubj
11	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cleaner	parataxis
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 knows	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 knows	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cleaner	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	bottle in a quote	participle			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	know in a quote	present	everyone		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

In many countries tap water is tested more often than bottled water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 countries	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 countries	amod
3	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tested	obl
4	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tested	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tested	aux:pass
7	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 often	advmod
9	often	often	ADV	_	7 tested	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	bottled	bottle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tested	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	present · passive		tap water		many countries		than bottled water; often property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	bottle	participle							vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Tap water is always dirty water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	compound
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 water	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 water	advmod
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Tap water	dirty water				always property	tree rules

Option 3

Bottled water always comes from a clean mountain spring, so it is purer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bottled	bottle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 comes	advmod
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 spring	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 spring	det
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spring	amod
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spring	compound
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 purer	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 purer	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 purer	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 purer	cop
14	purer	pure	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 comes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	bottle	participle				vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	come	present	Bottled water	spring	always property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	water		pure property	tree rules

Option 4

Tap water is never tested by anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	compound
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tested	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tested	aux:pass
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 tested	advmod
5	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 tested	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not test	present · passive	anyone	Tap water					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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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