Test 2 · Caring for the environment

Why is it a good idea to recycle aluminium cans rather than make new ones?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be, recycle, make · To what, where: good idea, aluminium cans, new ones

This is test 2 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 idea	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 idea	expl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 recycle	mark
8	recycle	recycle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 idea	acl
9	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cans	compound
10	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 recycle	obj
11	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	13 make	cc
12	than	than	ADP	_	11 rather	fixed
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 recycle	conj
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ones	amod
15	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 idea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	a good idea	tree rules
2	recycle	to-infinitive	aluminium cans	tree rules
3	make	infinitive	new ones	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product

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

Recycled cans are heavier and stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cans	amod
2	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heavier	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heavier	cop
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stronger	cc
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 heavier	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	recycle	participle			tree rules
2	is	present	Recycled cans	heavy property	tree rules
3	be		Recycled cans not said here		tree rules

Option 2

It makes cans break down faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 break	compound:prt
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 break	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	cans					tree rules
2	break down	infinitive	cans not said here					fast property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

New cans are made of plastic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cans	amod
2	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 plastic	case
6	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		New cans				of plastic	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Recycling saves most of the energy needed to make new metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saves	nsubj
2	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 saves	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 energy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 energy	det
6	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 most	nmod
7	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 energy	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 needed	advcl
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 metal	amod
11	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	save	present	Recycling	most of the energy	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme
2	need	participle		the energy not said here	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	make	to-infinitive		new metal	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset metal=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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