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Test 4 · ★ · Natural resources and why we must save them

A family sorts its rubbish into paper, glass, metal and plastic. What does this help to do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family · What happens: sort, do · To what, where: rubbish, paper, help

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 47 «Natural resources and why we must save them» of the world 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: A family sorts its rubbish into paper, glass, metal and plastic.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sorts	nsubj
3	sorts	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 rubbish	nmod:poss
5	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sorts	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 paper	case
7	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sorts	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 glass	punct
9	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paper	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 metal	punct
11	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paper	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 plastic	cc
13	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paper	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sorts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	present	a family	family's rubbish				into paper and glass and metal and plastic goal	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme into paper=Goal

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 does this help to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 help	det
4	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	acl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		this help					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Eventuality
2	do	to-infinitive		this help not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Turn the plastic into fresh drinking water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 plastic	det
3	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 water	case
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
6	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 water	compound
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here	the plastic		fresh drinking water			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent plastic=Theme into water=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Make more rubbish to sort next week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 rubbish	amod
3	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sort	mark
5	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 week	amod
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sort	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	more rubbish					tree rules
2	sort	to-infinitive	more rubbish not said here				week		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Recycle materials into new things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recycle	recycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 materials	compound
2	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 things	case
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 materials	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Burn the rubbish faster in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rubbish	det
3	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burn	obj
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Burn	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	imperative	you not said here	the rubbish		the garden		fast property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme

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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