Test 6 · ★ · Recycling, waste and plastic

What would happen if a landfill took only plastic and no food waste?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: landfill · What happens: happen, take · To what, where: plastic

This is test 6 · ★ 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 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 took	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 landfill	det
6	landfill	landfill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	nsubj
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 plastic	advmod
9	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 waste	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 waste	det
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waste	compound
13	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plastic	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take a condition, not said to happen	past	a landfill	plastic and no food waste					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plastic=Theme

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

It would give off much more methane

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 give	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 give	compound:prt
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 methane	amod
7	methane	methane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give off	would	It	more methane					vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source methane=Theme

Option 2

It would turn into compost in a 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	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 compost	case
5	compost	compost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			compost	year		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into compost=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would give off much less methane

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 give	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 give	compound:prt
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 less	advmod
6	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 methane	amod
7	methane	methane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give off	would	It	less methane					vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source methane=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The plastic would rot away quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plastic	det
2	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rot	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rot	aux
4	rot	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 rot	advmod
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 rot	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot away	would	the plastic					away, quickly property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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