Test 4 · ★ · Recycling, waste and plastic

Why do recycling centres ask people to rinse yoghurt pots before recycling them?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: recycling centres · What happens: do, ask, rinse, recycle · To what, where: people, yoghurt pots, pots

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	advcl
3	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 centres	compound
4	centres	centre	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ask	nsubj
5	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ask	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 rinse	mark
8	rinse	rinse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ask	xcomp
9	yoghurt	yoghurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pots	compound
10	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rinse	obj
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 recycling	mark
12	recycling	recycle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 rinse	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 recycling	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	present	recycling centres not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	present	recycling centres		people	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
3	rinse not said to happen	to-infinitive	recycling centres not said here	yoghurt pots		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pot=Source
4	recycle	gerund	recycling centres not said here	pots = pot		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

Rinsing makes the pots lighter to carry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rinsing	rinse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pots	det
4	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 carry	mark
7	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lighter	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rinse	gerund				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	make	present		the pots	light property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pot=Product
3	carry	to-infinitive	the pots not said here			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Clean pots turn into glass much more easily later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pots	amod
2	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	nsubj
3	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 glass	case
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 easily	advmod
8	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Clean pots			glass		easily, late property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into glass=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Dirty pots can spoil the clean recycled material

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pots	amod
2	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spoil	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spoil	aux
4	spoil	spoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 material	det
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 material	amod
7	recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 material	amod
8	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoil	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spoil	can	Dirty pots	the clean recycled material					tree rules
2	recycle	participle							tree rules

Option 4

Water helps the pots rot away faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pots	det
4	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rot	nsubj
5	rot	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 helps	ccomp
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 rot	advmod
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 helps	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Water					fast property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	rot away	present	the pots					away property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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