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title: A family starts buying loose fruit instead of fruit packed in plasti… — Caring for the environment · tree and pragmatics
description: A family starts buying loose fruit instead of fruit packed in plastic trays. Which of the three Rs is this? Test 1 of lesson 57 «Caring for the environment» 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 was wro
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# Test 1 · Caring for the environment

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A family starts buying loose fruit instead of fruit packed in plastic trays. Which of the three Rs is this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** family · **What happens:** start, buy, pack, be · **To what, where:** loose fruit, fruit, plastic trays, this

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This is test 1 of lesson 57 «Caring for the environment» 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/57-environment/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A family starts buying loose fruit instead of fruit packed in plastic trays.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:57-environment:t1:1
# text = A family starts buying loose fruit instead of fruit packed in plastic trays.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	trays	tray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | a family |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **buy** | gerund | a family *not said here* | loose fruit |  |  |  | instead fruit | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme |
| 3 | **pack** | participle |  | fruit *not said here* |  | plastic trays |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in tray=Destination |

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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:* Which of the three Rs is this?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:57-environment:t1:2
# text = Which of the three Rs is this?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	Rs	r	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Reuse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:57-environment:t1:o1:1
# text = Reuse
1	Reuse	reuse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reuse** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Repair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:57-environment:t1:o2:1
# text = Repair
1	Repair	repair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Reduce

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:57-environment:t1:o3:1
# text = Reduce
1	Reduce	reduce	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reduce** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Recycle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:57-environment:t1:o4:1
# text = Recycle
1	Recycle	recycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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