--- title: Your mate wants to burn plastic rubbish on the bonfire "to get rid o… — Plastics: useful and stubborn · tree and pragmatics description: Your mate wants to burn plastic rubbish on the bonfire "to get rid of it". Why not? Test 6 of lesson 29 «Plastics: useful and stubborn» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/) / [Plastics: useful and stubborn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/) / t6 # Test 6 · Plastics: useful and stubborn Your mate wants to burn plastic rubbish on the bonfire "to get rid of it". Why not? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate · **What happens:** want, burn, get · **To what, where:** plastic rubbish, bonfire · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 6 of lesson 29 «Plastics: useful and stubborn» of the chemistry 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/#t6). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your mate wants to burn plastic rubbish on the bonfire "to get rid of it". ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:29-plastics-useful-stubborn:t6:1 # text = Your mate wants to burn plastic rubbish on the bonfire "to get rid of it". 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 bonfire bonfire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 rid rid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | Your mate | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **burn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Your mate *not said here* | plastic rubbish | | the bonfire | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:* Why not? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:29-plastics-useful-stubborn:t6:2 # text = Why not? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} It gives off poisonous fumes ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:29-plastics-useful-stubborn:t6:o1:1 # text = It gives off poisonous fumes 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 fumes fume NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give off** | present | It | poisonous fumes | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source fume=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} It makes the whole bonfire go out ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:29-plastics-useful-stubborn:t6:o2:1 # text = It makes the whole bonfire go out 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 bonfire bonfire NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 7 out out ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | It | the whole bonfire | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go out** | infinitive | the whole bonfire *not said here* | | | | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} It makes the fire too cold ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:29-plastics-useful-stubborn:t6:o3:1 # text = It makes the fire too cold 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | It | the fire | | | | cold *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material fire=Product | ### Option 4 {#o4} It is a waste of good fuel ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:29-plastics-useful-stubborn:t6:o4:1 # text = It is a waste of good fuel 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | It | a waste | | | | of good fuel | tree rules | **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. 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