Exam question 1 · Recycling, waste and plastic

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the recycling of glass?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: recycling

This is exam question 1 of lesson 88 «Recycling, waste and plastic» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 recycling	det
10	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 glass	case
12	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 recycling	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the recycling of glass				of the following statements; accurately 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

It may be recycled only once

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	4 recycled	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 recycled	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 recycled	aux:pass
4	recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 once	advmod
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 recycled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recycle	may · passive		It				once property	tree rules

Option 2

It cannot be recycled at all

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	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		It		all			tree rules

Option 3

It becomes weaker with every recycling

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 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 becomes	xcomp
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 recycling	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 recycling	det
6	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 becomes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	It					with every recycling; weak property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It may be recycled again and again without getting worse

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	4 recycled	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 recycled	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 recycled	aux:pass
4	recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 recycled	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 again	cc
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 again	conj
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 getting	mark
9	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 recycled	advcl
10	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recycle	may · passive		It			again		tree rules
2	get	gerund						bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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