Test 12 · ★ · Recycling, waste and plastic

Leo says plastic rots away in a few years like food. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leo · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rots	amod
4	rots	rot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 away	obl:unmarked
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 says	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 years	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 years	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 years	amod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 says	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 food	case
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 years	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 true	punct
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Leo				year		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Yes, plastic rots into compost quite quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 rots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rots	compound
4	rots	rot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 compost	case
6	compost	compost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rots	nmod
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 quickly	advmod
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 rots	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, plastic breaks into tiny microplastics instead of rotting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 breaks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 breaks	punct
3	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breaks	nsubj
4	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 microplastics	case
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 microplastics	amod
7	microplastics	microplastics	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breaks	obl
8	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 rotting	mark
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 instead	fixed
10	rotting	rot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 breaks	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	plastic					into tiny microplastics result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into microplastics=Result
2	rot	gerund	plastic not said here						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Yes, but only in a hot sunny place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 place	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 place	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 place	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 place	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 place	det
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 place	amod
8	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 place	amod
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

No, plastic stays whole and never breaks up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 stays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stays	punct
3	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stays	nsubj
4	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stays	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 breaks	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 breaks	advmod
8	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stays	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 breaks	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	plastic					whole property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not break up	present	plastic not said here						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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