Test 7 · Pencils, paper and school things

«paper comes from plastic, innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: paper · What happens: come, innit, be · To what, where: plastic

This is test 7 of lesson 6 «Pencils, paper and school things» 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	_	3 comes	punct
2	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 plastic	case
5	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	parataxis
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 innit	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	paper	plastic		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from plastic=Initial_Location
2	innit in a quote	infinitive				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

Yes, paper is very thin plastic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 plastic	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plastic	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 plastic	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 thin	advmod
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plastic	amod
7	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Paper is made from sheep's wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 wool	case
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wool	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 sheep	case
7	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Paper		sheep's wool			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from wool=Material

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Paper is made from wood pulp, and often from recycled paper too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 pulp	case
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulp	compound
6	pulp	pulp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 paper	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 paper	cc
9	often	often	ADV	_	12 paper	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 paper	case
11	recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 paper	amod
12	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	conj
13	too	too	ADV	_	12 paper	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Paper		wood pulp			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from pulp=Material
2	recycle	participle							tree rules

Option 4

Paper is made from stone dust mixed with water and dried in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 dust	case
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dust	compound
6	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dust	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mixed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dried	cc
11	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 made	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 sun	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive	Paper	stone dust		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from dust=Material
2	mix	participle	stone dust not said here		with water	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with water=Co-Patient
3	dry	participle		the sun		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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