Test 7 · ★ · Recycling, waste and plastic

Why is a glass jar a good thing to recycle?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, recycle · To what, where: glass jar

This is test 7 · ★ 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	5 jar	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 jar	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 jar	det
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jar	compound
5	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jar	appos
9	to	to	PART	_	10 recycle	mark
10	recycle	recycle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thing	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 jar	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a glass jar					tree rules
2	recycle	to-infinitive							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 · ✓ the right answer

Its glass can be made into new jars again and again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 glass	nmod:poss
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 jars	case
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 jars	amod
8	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
9	again	again	ADV	_	5 made	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 again	cc
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 again	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can · passive		Its glass		new jars	again		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into jar=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Recycled glass becomes much lighter than new glass is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 glass	amod
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	nsubj
3	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 lighter	advmod
5	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 becomes	xcomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 glass	case
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 glass	amod
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lighter	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lighter	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	recycle	participle			tree rules
2	become	present	Recycled glass		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	Recycled glass not said here	than new glass; light property	tree rules

Option 3

Glass can be recycled only once or twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recycled	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 recycled	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 recycled	aux:pass
4	recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 once	advmod
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 recycled	advmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 twice	cc
8	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 once	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recycle	can · passive		Glass				once property	tree rules

Option 4

Glass rots away quickly if it is buried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rots	nsubj
2	rots	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 rots	advmod
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 rots	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 buried	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 buried	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 buried	aux:pass
8	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rots	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot away	present	Glass					away, quickly property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	bury a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		Glass					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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