Test 9 · Caring for the environment

why's plastic in the sea such a big deal

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: plastic · What happens: be

This is test 9 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=Rel	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 why	cop
3	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plastic	nmod
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 deal	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 deal	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 deal	amod
10	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	advcl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	plastic in the sea					why 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

Plastic makes the water too salty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 salty	advmod
6	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Plastic	the water				salty property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sea animals swallow it or get tangled, and it lasts for hundreds of years

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 animals	compound
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swallow	nsubj
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swallow	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 get	cc
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 swallow	conj
7	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 get	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lasts	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lasts	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lasts	nsubj
11	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swallow	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 hundreds	case
13	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lasts	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 years	case
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hundreds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swallow	present	Sea animals	it		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	get	infinitive	Sea animals not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	tangle	participle	Sea animals not said here			tree rules
4	last	present	it		for hundreds of years	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Plastic melts into food for fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melts	nsubj
2	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 food	case
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melts	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 fish	case
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	Plastic			food		for fish	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into food=Product

Option 4

It only looks ugly on beaches

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	3 looks	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 looks	advmod
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looks	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 beaches	case
6	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	It					on beaches; ugly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on beach=Theme

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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