--- title: A family sorts its rubbish into paper, glass, metal and plastic. Wha… — Natural resources and why we must save… · tree and pragmatics description: A family sorts its rubbish into paper, glass, metal and plastic. What does this help to do? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 47 «Natural resources and why we must save them» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice wa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/47-natural-resources/t4/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Natural resources and why we must save…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/47-natural-resources/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Natural resources and why we must save them A family sorts its rubbish into paper, glass, metal and plastic. What does this help to do? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** family · **What happens:** sort, do · **To what, where:** rubbish, paper, help This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 47 «Natural resources and why we must save them» of the world 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/world/47-natural-resources/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A family sorts its rubbish into paper, glass, metal and plastic. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t4:1 # text = A family sorts its rubbish into paper, glass, metal and plastic. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sorts sort VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sort** | present | a family | family's rubbish | | | | into paper and glass and metal and plastic *goal* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme into paper=Goal | 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. *Sentence 2:* What does this help to do? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t4:2 # text = What does this help to do? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | | this help | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Eventuality | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | | this help *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Turn the plastic into fresh drinking water ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t4:o1:1 # text = Turn the plastic into fresh drinking water 1 Turn turn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 drinking drinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | the plastic | | fresh drinking water | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent plastic=Theme into water=Trajectory | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Make more rubbish to sort next week ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t4:o2:1 # text = Make more rubbish to sort next week 1 Make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ _ 3 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 sort sort VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 6 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | more rubbish | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sort** | to-infinitive | more rubbish *not said here* | | | | week | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Recycle materials into new things ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t4:o3:1 # text = Recycle materials into new things 1 Recycle recycle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 materials material NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Burn the rubbish faster in the garden ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t4:o4:1 # text = Burn the rubbish faster in the garden 1 Burn burn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 1 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burn** | imperative | you *not said here* | the rubbish | | the garden | | fast *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme | **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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