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title: Leo says plastic rots away in a few years like food. true? — Recycling, waste and plastic · tree and pragmatics
description: Leo says plastic rots away in a few years like food. true? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 88 «Recycling, waste and plastic» 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 wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Recycling, waste and plastic

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Leo says plastic rots away in a few years like food. true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Leo · **What happens:** say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 88 «Recycling, waste and plastic» 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/88-recycling-waste-plastic/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t12:1
# text = Leo says plastic rots away in a few years like food. true?
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rots	rot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	ccomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
13	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Leo |  |  |  | year |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, plastic rots into compost quite quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t12:o1:1
# text = Yes, plastic rots into compost quite quickly
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	rots	rot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	compost	compost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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No, plastic breaks into tiny microplastics instead of rotting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t12:o2:1
# text = No, plastic breaks into tiny microplastics instead of rotting
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	microplastics	microplastics	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	10	mark	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	rotting	rot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present | plastic |  |  |  |  | into tiny microplastics *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into microplastics=Result |
| 2 | **rot** | gerund | plastic *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, but only in a hot sunny place

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t12:o3:1
# text = Yes, but only in a hot sunny place
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, plastic stays whole and never breaks up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t12:o4:1
# text = No, plastic stays whole and never breaks up
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | plastic |  |  |  |  | whole *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **break up** | present | plastic *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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