Test 11 · Caring for the environment

my sister says recycling is the best thing you can do about waste. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister, recycling, you · What happens: say, be, do · To what, where: best thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thing	acl:relcl
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 waste	case
13	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my sister		true property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	recycling	the best thing		tree rules
3	do	can	you	the best thing not said here	about waste	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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

No, reducing helps most because the waste is never made

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 reducing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reducing	punct
3	reducing	reduce	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 helps	nsubj
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 helps	advmod
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 made	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 waste	det
8	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux:pass
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 made	advmod
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 helps	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	reduce	gerund		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer
2	help	present		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	not make	present · passive	the waste	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

Yes, recycling beats everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 recycling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beats	nsubj
4	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 beats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	recycling	everything					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location everything=Theme

Option 3

Yes, reducing does nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 reducing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	reducing	reduce	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 does	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	gerund							vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer
2	do	present		nothing		all			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 4

No, throwing away is best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 throwing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 best	csubj
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 throwing	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 best	cop
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	gerund						away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	throwing					good property	tree rules

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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