Test 13 · ★ · Recycling, waste and plastic
my sister reckons paper can be recycled forever. right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister · What happens: reckon, recycle · To what, where: paper
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reckons | nsubj |
| 3 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recycled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 recycled | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 recycled | aux:pass |
| 7 | recycled | recycle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reckons | ccomp |
| 8 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 7 recycled | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckons | punct |
| 10 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 3 reckons | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | my sister | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | recycle | can · passive | paper | forever 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
Yes, paper never gets worse however many times it's recycled
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 paper | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 gets | advmod |
| 5 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 gets | xcomp |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 many | advmod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 times | amod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gets | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 recycled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 recycled | aux:pass |
| 12 | recycled | recycle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 times | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | present | paper | time | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | recycle | present · passive | many times not said here | paper | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, only a few times, because its fibres get shorter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 times | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 times | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 times | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 times | amod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 get | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fibres | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fibres | fibre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 get | nsubj |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | its fibres | time | short property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
No, paper can never be recycled at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 recycled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recycled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 recycled | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 recycled | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 recycled | aux:pass |
| 7 | recycled | recycle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 recycled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not recycle | can · passive | paper | all | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, just like glass and metal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 glass | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 glass | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 glass | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 glass | case |
| 5 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 metal | cc |
| 7 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glass | conj |
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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