Test 4 · ★★ · Phones and computer chips

«chucked a dead phone battery in the kitchen bin, sorted» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: chuck, sort, be · To what, where: dead phone battery, kitchen bin

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Phones and computer chips» 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	_	2 chucked	punct
2	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 battery	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 battery	amod
5	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 battery	compound
6	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 bin	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bin	det
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bin	compound
10	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sorted	punct
12	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chucked	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 sorted	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sorted	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 chucked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chuck in a quote	past	a dead phone battery	the kitchen bin		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent battery=Theme in bin=Destination
2	sort in a quote	past				vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
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

Wrong: batteries in bins can catch fire, so take them to recycling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 batteries	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 batteries	punct
3	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 catch	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 bins	case
5	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 batteries	nmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 catch	aux
7	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catch	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 take	advmod
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 catch	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 take	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 recycling	case
14	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	can	Wrong batteries in bins	fire					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
2	take	infinitive	Wrong batteries in bins not said here	batteries = battery		recycling			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to recycling=Destination

Option 2

Fine, as long as the bin lid is shut tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Fine	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 lid	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lid	det
7	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lid	compound
8	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 shut	cop
10	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tight	csubj
11	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fine	parataxis

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

Option 3

Right, batteries go with the food waste

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	3 batteries	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 waste	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 waste	det
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waste	compound
8	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

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

Option 4

Fine: a dead battery has nothing left in it, so it can never burn

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 battery	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 battery	amod
5	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	conj
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 has	obj
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 nothing	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 burn	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 burn	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 burn	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 burn	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 burn	advmod
16	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	a dead battery	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	leave	participle			battery	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in it=Result
3	not burn	can	battery			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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