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description: Mia's mum gives her old school uniform to a younger girl. Which step is this? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 32 «Recycling: giving materials a second life» 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 10 · ★ · Recycling: giving materials a second life

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Mia's mum gives her old school uniform to a younger girl. Which step is this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum · **What happens:** give, be · **To what, where:** old school uniform, younger girl, this

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 32 «Recycling: giving materials a second life» 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/32-recycling-second-life/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mia's mum gives her old school uniform to a younger girl.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t10:1
# text = Mia's mum gives her old school uniform to a younger girl.
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	uniform	uniform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Mia's mum | mum's old school uniform | a younger girl |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent uniform=Theme to girl=Recipient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which step is this?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t10:2
# text = Which step is this?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Recycle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t10:o1:1
# text = Recycle
1	Recycle	recycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Landfill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t10:o2:1
# text = Landfill
1	Landfill	landfill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Compost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t10:o3:1
# text = Compost
1	Compost	compost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Reuse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t10:o4:1
# text = Reuse
1	Reuse	reuse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reuse** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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