Test 2 · ★ · Recycling, waste and plastic

Which is true about plastic in nature?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 plastic	case
5	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 nature	case
7	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plastic	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about plastic in nature; true 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 · ✓ the right answer

It breaks into pieces but does not rot away

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 breaks	nsubj
2	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 pieces	case
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 breaks	obl
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 rot	cc
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rot	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 rot	advmod
8	rot	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 breaks	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 rot	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	It					into pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result
2	not rot away	present · do-support						away property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It is eaten up by hungry worms and disappears

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	3 eaten	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux:pass
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 eaten	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 worms	case
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 worms	amod
7	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eaten	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 disappears	cc
9	disappears	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	present · passive	hungry worms	It					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	disappear	present	hungry worms not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It rots into rich garden soil within one year

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 rots	nsubj
2	rots	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 soil	case
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soil	amod
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soil	compound
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rots	obl
7	within	within	ADP	_	9 year	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 year	nummod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rots	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	present	It			rich garden soil	year		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It slowly turns back into crude oil in the ground

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	3 turns	nsubj
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 turns	advmod
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 turns	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 oil	case
6	crude	crude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 oil	amod
7	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	present	It			crude oil		in the ground; slowly property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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