Test 9 · Bottles, cans and recycling

«my can's ring-pull won't come off, it's broke» What is the real story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ring pull, pull · What happens: not come off, be · To what, where: real story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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	_	10 come	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 can	nmod:poss
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
4	's	's	PART	_	3 can	case
5	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pull	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ring	punct
7	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
8	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 come	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 broke	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 broke	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 broke	cop
15	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 come	parataxis
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 broke	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 story	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 story	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 story	det
20	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 story	amod
21	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 broke	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not come off in a quote	can · future	ring pull			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	pull		broke property	tree rules
3	is a	present		the real story		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

Stay-on tabs are meant to stay; old ones came off and littered beaches

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tabs	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 tabs	case
4	tabs	tabs	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 meant	aux:pass
6	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tabs	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stay	mark
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 meant	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	parataxis
13	off	off	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 littered	cc
15	littered	litter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
16	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 littered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here		tabs		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tabs=Location
2	mean	present · passive		tabs not said here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: clause=Topic
3	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come off	past	old ones			off property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
5	litter	past	old ones not said here	beaches			vn calve-28.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Patient

Option 2

Cans never had ring-pulls before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pulls	csubj
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ring	punct
6	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	before	before	ADV	_	6 pulls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past	Cans	ring					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient
2	pull	present						before property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

All ring-pulls are meant to come off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 meant	nsubj:pass
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulls	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 ring	punct
4	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 All	acl:relcl
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 meant	aux:pass
6	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 come	mark
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 meant	xcomp
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 come	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	pull	present		vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mean	present · passive	All	tree rules
3	come off not said to happen	to-infinitive		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The tab comes off only if you win a prize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tab	det
2	tab	tab	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 comes	compound:prt
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 win	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 win	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 win	nsubj
8	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 prize	det
10	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come off	present	the tab						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	win a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a prize					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality

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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