Exam question 3 · Recycling, waste and plastic

Ascertain the means by which steel cans are separated at recycling plants.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, the · What happens: ascertain, mean, separate · To what, where: steel cans, recycling plants · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	ccomp
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 separated	obl
6	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cans	compound
7	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 separated	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 separated	aux:pass
9	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 means	ccomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 plants	case
11	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plants	compound
12	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 separated	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	present	the			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	separate	present · passive		steel cans	recycling plants	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

By wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 wind	case
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By magnets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 magnets	case
2	magnets	magnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

By hand alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 hand	case
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 hand	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

By water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 water	case
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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.

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