Exam question 2 · Caring for the environment

Identify, among the practices of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, that which is of the greatest benefit, together with the reason therefor.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, be, practice · To what, where: Reduce

This is exam question 2 of lesson 57 «Caring for the environment» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 practices	punct
3	among	among	ADP	_	5 practices	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 practices	det
5	practices	practice	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Reduce	case
7	Reduce	Reduce	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 practices	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Reuse	punct
9	Reuse	Reuse	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Reduce	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Recycle	cc
11	Recycle	Recycle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Reduce	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 benefit	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 benefit	mark
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 benefit	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 benefit	cop
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 benefit	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 benefit	det
18	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 benefit	amod
19	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 together	punct
21	together	together	ADV	_	19 benefit	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 therefor	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 therefor	det
24	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 therefor	compound
25	therefor	therefor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 benefit	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here		among the practices of Reduce and Reuse and Recycle	vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present			of the greatest benefit; with the reason therefor; together property	tree rules
3	practice			Reduce and Reuse and Recycle		nom practice «act transitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1

Reuse, since objects are thereby destroyed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reuse	reuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 destroyed	punct
3	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 destroyed	mark
4	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 destroyed	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 destroyed	aux:pass
6	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	7 destroyed	advmod
7	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Reuse	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reuse	imperative	you not said here						vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	destroy	present · passive		objects				thereby property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Reduce, since the waste is never produced

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reduce	reduce	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 produced	punct
3	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 produced	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 waste	det
5	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 produced	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 produced	aux:pass
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 produced	advmod
8	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Reduce	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	imperative	you not said here						vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer
2	not produce	present · passive		the waste					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

Option 3

Recycle, since it requires no energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recycle	recycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 requires	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 requires	punct
3	since	since	SCONJ	_	5 requires	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 requires	nsubj
5	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 energy	det
7	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 requires	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	Recycle	no energy					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme energy=Precondition

Option 4

Recycle, since every material may be remade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recycle	recycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remade	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Recycle	punct
3	since	since	ADP	_	5 material	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 material	det
5	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Recycle	nmod
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 remade	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 remade	aux:pass
8	remade	remake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remake	may · passive		Recycle since every material					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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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