Test 3 · Caring for the environment
A family sorts its rubbish. Where should a newspaper go?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: family, newspaper · What happens: sort, go · To what, where: rubbish
This is test 3 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 sorts its rubbish.
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 | . | . | 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 | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme |
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: Where should a newspaper go?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 go | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 newspaper | det |
| 4 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | should | a newspaper | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Into the paper recycling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 4 recycling | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 recycling | det |
| 3 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recycling | compound |
| 4 | recycling | recycling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Into the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 3 river | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 river | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Onto a bonfire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Onto | onto | ADP | _ | 3 bonfire | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bonfire | det |
| 3 | bonfire | bonfire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Into the compost heap with meat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 4 heap | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 heap | det |
| 3 | compost | compost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heap | compound |
| 4 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 meat | case |
| 6 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heap | nmod |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/57-environment/t3/