---
title: What would happen if a landfill took only plastic and no food waste? — Recycling, waste and plastic · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a landfill took only plastic and no food waste? Test 6 · ★ 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/t6/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Recycling, waste and plastic](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/) / t6

# Test 6 · ★ · Recycling, waste and plastic

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What would happen if a landfill took only plastic and no food waste?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** landfill · **What happens:** happen, take · **To what, where:** plastic

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t6:1
# text = What would happen if a landfill took only plastic and no food waste?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	landfill	landfill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a landfill | plastic and no food waste |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plastic=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would give off much more methane

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t6:o1:1
# text = It would give off much more methane
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	methane	methane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give off** | would | It | more methane |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source methane=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would turn into compost in a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t6:o2:1
# text = It would turn into compost in a year
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	compost	compost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | It |  |  | compost | year |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into compost=Trajectory |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would give off much less methane

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t6:o3:1
# text = It would give off much less methane
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	methane	methane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give off** | would | It | less methane |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source methane=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The plastic would rot away quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t6:o4:1
# text = The plastic would rot away quickly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rot	rot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rot away** | would | the plastic |  |  |  |  | away, quickly *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Recycling, waste and plastic, test 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/t5/)
- next →: [Recycling, waste and plastic, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/t7/)
- ↑ back to [Recycling, waste and plastic](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/)