--- title: Ascertain the principal advantage of the recycling of metals in resp… — Metals, mining and what they cost · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the principal advantage of the recycling of metals in respect of energy. Exam question 4 of lesson 60 «Metals, mining and what they cost» of the geography 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/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/e4/) [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/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [Metals, mining and what they cost](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Metals, mining and what they cost Ascertain the principal advantage of the recycling of metals in respect of energy. **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, respect · **To what, where:** principal advantage, energy This is exam question 4 of lesson 60 «Metals, mining and what they cost» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:e4:1 # text = Ascertain the principal advantage of the recycling of metals in respect of energy. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 principal principal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 advantage advantage NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 recycling recycling NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 metals metal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal advantage of the recycling of metals in respect of energy | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Topic | | 2 | **respect** | | | energy | | | | | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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} Considerably more energy is consumed than in mining ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:e4:o1:1 # text = Considerably more energy is consumed than in mining 1 Considerably considerably ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ _ 3 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 consumed consume VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 mining mining NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **consume** | present · passive | | more energy | | | | than mining; considerably *property* | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Considerably less energy is consumed than in the mining of new ore ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:e4:o2:1 # text = Considerably less energy is consumed than in the mining of new ore 1 Considerably considerably ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ _ 3 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 consumed consume VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 mining mining NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 ore ore NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **consume** | present · passive | | less energy | | | | than the mining of new ore | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | | 2 | **mine** | | | new ore | | | | | nom mining «act transitive»: of=patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Energy consumption is identical in both cases ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:e4:o3:1 # text = Energy consumption is identical in both cases 1 Energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 consumption consumption NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 identical identical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Energy consumption | | | both cases | | identical *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} No energy whatsoever is consumed ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:e4:o4:1 # text = No energy whatsoever is consumed 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 whatsoever whatsoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 consumed consume VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **consume** | present · passive | | whatsoever | | | | | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | **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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