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title: "old phone in the drawer's just junk mate". What's true? — Recycling: giving materials a second l… · tree and pragmatics
description: "old phone in the drawer's just junk mate". What's true? Test 7 · ★ 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 7 · ★ · Recycling: giving materials a second life

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"old phone in the drawer's just junk mate". What's true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "old phone in the drawer's just junk mate".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t7:1
# text = "old phone in the drawer's just junk mate".
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	junk	junk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* What's true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t7:2
# text = What's true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It is only plastic inside, nothing useful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t7:o1:1
# text = It is only plastic inside, nothing useful
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	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	conj	_	_
8	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | inside, plastic *property* | tree rules |

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

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It holds metals worth recovering, even gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t7:o2:1
# text = It holds metals worth recovering, even gold
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	recovering	recover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | It | metals |  |  |  | worth *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metal=Theme |
| 2 | **recover** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is worth more if you keep it in the drawer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t7:o3:1
# text = It is worth more if you keep it in the drawer
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | it |  | the drawer |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in drawer=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It will rot away in a few years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:32-recycling-second-life:t7:o4:1
# text = It will rot away in a few years
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	rot	rot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rot away** | future | It |  |  |  | year | away *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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