Test 6 · Bottles, cans and recycling

«juice carton goes in with the newspapers yeah, it's cardboard» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: juice carton, carton, cardboard · What happens: go in, be · To what, where: cardboard

This is test 6 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	_	4 goes	punct
2	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carton	compound
3	carton	carton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 goes	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 newspapers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 newspapers	det
8	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 goes	obl
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	17 right	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cardboard	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cardboard	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cardboard	cop
13	cardboard	cardboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 right	nsubj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 cardboard	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 goes	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go in in a quote	present	juice carton		with the newspapers	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with newspaper=Beneficiary
2	is a in a quote	present	carton	cardboard		tree rules
3	is	present	cardboard		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 · ✓ the right answer

No, it also has plastic and foil layers, so it needs special recycling

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 has	nsubj
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 has	advmod
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 layers	cc
8	foil	foil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 layers	compound
9	layers	layer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plastic	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 needs	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 needs	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 needs	nsubj
13	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
14	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 recycling	amod
15	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	plastic and foil layers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plastic=Patient
2	need	present	it	special recycling					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot recycling=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No carton can ever be recycled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 carton	det
2	carton	carton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recycled	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 recycled	aux
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 recycled	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 recycled	aux:pass
6	recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recycle	can · passive		no carton			ever		tree rules

Option 3

It goes in the bottle bank with glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 bank	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bank	det
5	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bank	compound
6	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 glass	case
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	It			the bottle bank		with glass	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with glass=Beneficiary

Option 4

Yes, it is only paper inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 paper	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 paper	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 paper	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 paper	advmod
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	6 paper	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	paper				inside property	tree rules

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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