Test 5 · Caring for the environment

Which is true about plastic?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 5 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 plastic	case
5	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about plastic; true property	tree rules

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

Plastic breaks down quickly in the sea, in a few weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breaks	nsubj
2	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 breaks	compound:prt
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 breaks	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breaks	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 weeks	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 weeks	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 weeks	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 weeks	amod
12	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 breaks	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break down	present	Plastic			the sea		quickly property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Plastic cannot be recycled at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recycled	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 recycled	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 recycled	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 recycled	aux:pass
5	recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 recycled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not recycle	can · passive		Plastic		all			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Most plastic lasts for hundreds of years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 plastic	amod
2	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasts	nsubj
3	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 hundreds	case
5	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lasts	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 years	case
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hundreds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	present	Most plastic					for hundreds of years	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Plastic is made from fresh fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 fruit	case
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fruit	amod
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Plastic		fresh fruit			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from fruit=Material

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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