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title: If people stopped recycling bottles, what would be needed more? — Glass and pottery · tree and pragmatics
description: If people stopped recycling bottles, what would be needed more? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 30 «Glass and pottery» 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Glass and pottery

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If people stopped recycling bottles, what would be needed more?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** stop, recycle, need · **To what, where:** recycling bottles

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 30 «Glass and pottery» 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/30-glass-and-pottery/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:30-glass-and-pottery:t8:1
# text = If people stopped recycling bottles, what would be needed more?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	recycling	recycle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | people | recycling bottles |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector bottle=Eventuality |
| 2 | **recycle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** | would · passive |  | recycling bottles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Sand and energy to make new glass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:30-glass-and-pottery:t8:o1:1
# text = Sand and energy to make new glass
1	Sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | new glass |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glass=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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More clay for new mugs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:30-glass-and-pottery:t8:o2:1
# text = More clay for new mugs
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mugs	mug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Less of anything at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:30-glass-and-pottery:t8:o3:1
# text = Less of anything at all
1	Less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Much more oil for making new plastic bottles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:30-glass-and-pottery:t8:o4:1
# text = Much more oil for making new plastic bottles
1	Much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund | more oil *not said here* | new plastic bottles |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bottle=Product |

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**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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