Test 9 · ★ · Recycling, waste and plastic

Which is the right order, from what helps most to what helps least?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: right order · What happens: be, help · To what, where: right order, most

This is test 9 · ★ 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	5 order	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 order	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 order	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 order	amod
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 helps	punct
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 helps	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 helps	nsubj
9	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 order	parataxis
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 helps	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 helps	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 helps	nsubj
13	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 helps	conj
14	least	least	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 helps	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 order	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the right order		tree rules
2	help	present	the right order	most		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Beneficiary
3	help	present			least property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Reuse, then recycle, then reduce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reuse	reuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 recycle	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 recycle	advmod
4	recycle	recycle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Reuse	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reduce	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 reduce	advmod
7	reduce	reduce	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Reuse	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	reuse	imperative	you not said here		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	recycle	infinitive	you not said here	then	tree rules
3	reduce	infinitive		then	vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer

Option 2

Recycle, then reduce, then reuse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recycle	recycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reduce	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Recycle	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 reduce	advmod
4	reduce	reduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reuse	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 reuse	advmod
7	reuse	reuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reduce	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	infinitive	Recycle				then		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer
2	reuse	infinitive	Recycle not said here				then		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Reduce, then reuse, then recycle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reduce	reduce	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reuse	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 reuse	advmod
4	reuse	reuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Reduce	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 recycle	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 recycle	advmod
7	recycle	recycle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Reduce	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	reduce	imperative	you not said here		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer
2	reuse	infinitive	you not said here	then	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	recycle	infinitive	you not said here	then	tree rules

Option 4

Recycle, then reuse, then reduce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recycle	recycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reuse	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Recycle	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 reuse	advmod
4	reuse	reuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reduce	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 reduce	advmod
7	reduce	reduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reuse	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reuse	infinitive	Recycle				then		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	reduce	infinitive	Recycle not said here				then		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer

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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