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title: Why do aluminium can recycling bins matter? — Metals, mining and what they cost · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do aluminium can recycling bins matter? Test 11 · ★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Metals, mining and what they cost

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Why do aluminium can recycling bins matter?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** aluminium · **What happens:** recycle, matter

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Metals, mining and what they cost» of the geography 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/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t11:1
# text = Why do aluminium can recycling bins matter?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	recycling	recycle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recycle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **matter** | can · present · do-support | aluminium |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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Aluminium cannot be recycled at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t11:o1:1
# text = Aluminium cannot be recycled at all
1	Aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	recycled	recycle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **recycle** | can · passive |  | Aluminium |  | all |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cans turn into oil when recycled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t11:o2:1
# text = Cans turn into oil when recycled
1	Cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	recycled	recycle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Cans |  |  | oil |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into oil=Trajectory |
| 2 | **recycle** | participle | Cans *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Recycling cans uses more energy than mining

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t11:o3:1
# text = Recycling cans uses more energy than mining
1	Recycling	recycle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	csubj	_	_
2	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mining	mining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recycle** | gerund |  | cans |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | Recycling | more energy |  |  |  | than mining | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient |

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

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Aluminium can be recycled again and again with much less energy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t11:o4:1
# text = Aluminium can be recycled again and again with much less energy
1	Aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	recycled	recycle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recycle** | can · passive |  | Aluminium |  |  | again | with less energy | tree rules |

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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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