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description: If everyone threw greasy food tubs into the paper bin, what would happen? Test 3 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Recycling: giving materials a second life

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If everyone threw greasy food tubs into the paper bin, what would happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** everyone, paper bin · **What happens:** throw, tub, happen · **To what, where:** greasy food, paper bin

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t3:1
# text = If everyone threw greasy food tubs into the paper bin, what would happen?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
3	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	greasy	greasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	tubs	tub	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | everyone | greasy food |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 2 | **tub** | present |  |  |  | the paper bin |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **happen** | would | the paper bin |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Paper would recycle faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t3:o1:1
# text = Paper would recycle faster
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	recycle	recycle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recycle** | would | Paper |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Loads of paper could be spoiled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t3:o2:1
# text = Loads of paper could be spoiled
1	Loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	spoiled	spoil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spoil** | could · passive |  | Loads of paper |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The grease would clean the paper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t3:o3:1
# text = The grease would clean the paper
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean** | would | the grease | the paper |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent paper=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The tubs would turn to paper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t3:o4:1
# text = The tubs would turn to paper
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tubs	tub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the tubs | paper |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme paper=Result |

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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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