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title: Why is a glass jar a good thing to recycle? — Recycling, waste and plastic · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is a glass jar a good thing to recycle? Test 7 · ★ 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 7 · ★ · Recycling, waste and plastic

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Why is a glass jar a good thing to recycle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, recycle · **To what, where:** glass jar

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t7:1
# text = Why is a glass jar a good thing to recycle?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	recycle	recycle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a glass jar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **recycle** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Its glass can be made into new jars again and again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t7:o1:1
# text = Its glass can be made into new jars again and again
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | can · passive |  | Its glass |  | new jars | again |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into jar=Product |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Recycled glass becomes much lighter than new glass is

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t7:o2:1
# text = Recycled glass becomes much lighter than new glass is
1	Recycled	recycle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recycle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | present | Recycled glass |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | Recycled glass *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than new glass; light *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Glass can be recycled only once or twice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t7:o3:1
# text = Glass can be recycled only once or twice
1	Glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	recycled	recycle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recycle** | can · passive |  | Glass |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Glass rots away quickly if it is buried

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:88-recycling-waste-plastic:t7:o4:1
# text = Glass rots away quickly if it is buried
1	Glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rots	rot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rot away** | present | Glass |  |  |  |  | away, quickly *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bury** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | Glass |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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