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title: Why do recycling centres ask people to rinse yoghurt pots before rec… — Recycling, waste and plastic · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do recycling centres ask people to rinse yoghurt pots before recycling them? Test 4 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Recycling, waste and plastic

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Why do recycling centres ask people to rinse yoghurt pots before recycling them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** recycling centres · **What happens:** do, ask, rinse, recycle · **To what, where:** people, yoghurt pots, pots

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t4:1
# text = Why do recycling centres ask people to rinse yoghurt pots before recycling them?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
3	recycling	recycling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	centres	centre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	iobj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	rinse	rinse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	yoghurt	yoghurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	recycling	recycle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | recycling centres *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | recycling centres |  | people |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **rinse** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | recycling centres *not said here* | yoghurt pots |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pot=Source |
| 4 | **recycle** | gerund | recycling centres *not said here* | pots *= pot* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Rinsing makes the pots lighter to carry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t4:o1:1
# text = Rinsing makes the pots lighter to carry
1	Rinsing	rinse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	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	4	det	_	_
4	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rinse** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | the pots |  |  |  | light *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pot=Product |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | the pots *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Clean pots turn into glass much more easily later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t4:o2:1
# text = Clean pots turn into glass much more easily later
1	Clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
9	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Clean pots |  |  | glass |  | easily, late *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into glass=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Dirty pots can spoil the clean recycled material

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t4:o3:1
# text = Dirty pots can spoil the clean recycled material
1	Dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	spoil	spoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	recycled	recycle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spoil** | can | Dirty pots | the clean recycled material |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **recycle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Water helps the pots rot away faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t4:o4:1
# text = Water helps the pots rot away faster
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rot	rot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Water |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **rot away** | present | the pots |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «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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