Test 11 · ★ · Recycling, waste and plastic

what's better, recycling stuff or just using less

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, recycle, use · To what, where: stuff, less

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 88 «Recycling, waste and plastic» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 better	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 recycling	punct
5	recycling	recycle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 better	advcl
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recycling	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 using	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 using	advmod
9	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 recycling	conj
10	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present		good property	tree rules
2	recycle	gerund	stuff		tree rules
3	use	gerund	less		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=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

Throwing things away saves the most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 saves	csubj
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Throwing	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Throwing	advmod
4	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 most	det
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 saves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	gerund		things				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	save	present	Throwing	the most					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Recycling always saves the most, way more than anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saves	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 saves	advmod
3	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 most	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 saves	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saves	obl
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 saves	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 anything	case
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present	Recycling	way				always property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They both save exactly the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 save	nsubj
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 save	nsubj
3	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present	They	the same					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Reducing and reusing save more than recycling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reducing	reduce	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 save	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 reusing	cc
3	reusing	reuse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Reducing	conj
4	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	7 recycling	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 more	fixed
7	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	reduce	gerund		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer
2	reuse	gerund		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	save	present	recycling	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recycling=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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