Test 7 · Bottles, cans and recycling
In a cartoon a recycling lorry tips everything into one hole and new cans pop straight out. What happens first in real life?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: recycling lorry, new cans · What happens: tip, pop, happen · To what, where: everything, cartoon, real life
This is test 7 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
Sentence 1: In a cartoon a recycling lorry tips everything into one hole and new cans pop straight out.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tips | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lorry | det |
| 5 | recycling | recycling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lorry | compound |
| 6 | lorry | lorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tips | nsubj |
| 7 | tips | tip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 tips | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 hole | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hole | nummod |
| 11 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tips | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pop | cc |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cans | amod |
| 14 | cans | can | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pop | nsubj |
| 15 | pop | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tips | conj |
| 16 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 17 out | advmod |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 pop | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tips | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tip | present | a recycling lorry | everything | a cartoon | into one hole result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer everything=Theme into hole=Result | ||
| 2 | pop | present | new cans | out property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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: What happens first in real life?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 happens | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 life | amod |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happens | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | real life | first property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in life=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Everything is melted together at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 melted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 melted | aux:pass |
| 3 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 melted | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 melted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | present · passive | Everything | together property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
Option 2
The recycling is buried in the ground
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 recycling | det |
| 2 | recycling | recycling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 buried | aux:pass |
| 4 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | present · passive | the recycling | the ground | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in ground=Destination |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Belts, magnets, air jets, cameras and people sort the materials
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sort | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 magnets | punct |
| 3 | magnets | magnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Belts | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 jets | punct |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jets | compound |
| 6 | jets | jet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Belts | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cameras | punct |
| 8 | cameras | camera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Belts | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 people | cc |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Belts | conj |
| 11 | sort | sort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 materials | det |
| 13 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sort | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | present | Belts and magnets and air jets and cameras and people | the materials | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Theme |
Option 4
The lorry squeezes all the rubbish together into brand-new cans on the way
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lorry | det |
| 2 | lorry | lorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squeezes | nsubj |
| 3 | squeezes | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 rubbish | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rubbish | det |
| 6 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squeezes | obj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 squeezes | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 cans | case |
| 9 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cans | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 brand | punct |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cans | amod |
| 12 | cans | can | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 squeezes | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cans | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | present | the lorry | all rubbish | brand new cans on the way | together property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent rubbish=Material into can=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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