Test 1 · Caring for the environment
A family starts buying loose fruit instead of fruit packed in plastic trays. Which of the three Rs is this?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family · What happens: start, buy, pack, be · To what, where: loose fruit, fruit, plastic trays, this
This is test 1 of lesson 57 «Caring for the environment» 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 starts buying loose fruit instead of fruit packed in plastic trays.
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 starts | nsubj |
| 3 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 starts | xcomp |
| 5 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fruit | amod |
| 6 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buying | obj |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 9 fruit | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 instead | fixed |
| 9 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buying | obl |
| 10 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 fruit | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 trays | case |
| 12 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 trays | amod |
| 13 | trays | tray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 packed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 starts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | a family | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | buy | gerund | a family not said here | loose fruit | instead fruit | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme | |||
| 3 | pack | participle | fruit not said here | plastic trays | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in tray=Destination |
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: Which of the three Rs is this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 Rs | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Rs | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Rs | det |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 Rs | nummod |
| 5 | Rs | r | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 this | cop |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Rs | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Reuse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reuse | reuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | 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 |
Option 2
Repair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Repair | repair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Reduce
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reduce | reduce | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | 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 |
Option 4
Recycle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Recycle | recycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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