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Test 8 · ★ · Recycling, waste and plastic

An old phone stops working. What is the best thing to do with it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old phone, best thing · What happens: stop, work, be, do

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: An old phone stops working.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 phone	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 phone	amod
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	nsubj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stops	xcomp
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stops	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	a old phone						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	a old phone not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: What is the best thing to do with it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best thing						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the best thing not said here					with thing	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Take it to a special electronics recycling point

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	8 point	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 point	det
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 point	amod
6	electronics	electronics	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 recycling	compound
7	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 point	compound
8	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	it		a special recycling point			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to point=Destination

Option 2

Bury it in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bury	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bury	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	imperative	you not said here	it		the garden			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in garden=Destination

Option 3

Throw it in the ordinary kitchen bin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 bin	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bin	det
5	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bin	amod
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bin	compound
7	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	it		the ordinary kitchen bin			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bin=Destination

Option 4

Throw it in the paper recycling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 recycling	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 recycling	det
5	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recycling	compound
6	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	it		the paper recycling			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in recycling=Destination

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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