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title: Your old phone sits in a drawer. Why might recycling it help? — Metals, mining and what they cost · tree and pragmatics
description: Your old phone sits in a drawer. Why might recycling it help? Test 3 · ★★ 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.
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# Test 3 · ★★ · Metals, mining and what they cost

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Your old phone sits in a drawer. Why might recycling it help?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** old phone · **What happens:** sit, recycle, help · **To what, where:** drawer, phone

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This is test 3 · ★★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your old phone sits in a drawer.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t3:1
# text = Your old phone sits in a drawer.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | Your old phone |  |  | a drawer |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in drawer=Location |

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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:* Why might recycling it help?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t3:2
# text = Why might recycling it help?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	recycling	recycle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recycle** | might |  | phone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Its metals can be reused without mining new ore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t3:o1:1
# text = Its metals can be reused without mining new ore
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	reused	reuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	mining	mine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ore	ore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reuse** | can · passive |  | Its metals |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **mine** | gerund |  | new ore |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ore=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Old phones make more lithium on their own over time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t3:o2:1
# text = Old phones make more lithium on their own over time
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	lithium	lithium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Old phones | more lithium |  | phones's own | time |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lithium=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Phones turn back into rock if left in drawers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t3:o3:1
# text = Phones turn back into rock if left in drawers
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	drawers	drawer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | present | Phones |  |  | rock |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | Phones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in drawers *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in drawer=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Recycling makes the phone radioactive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t3:o4:1
# text = Recycling makes the phone radioactive
1	Recycling	recycling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	radioactive	radioactive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Recycling | the phone radioactive |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset radioactive=Product |

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