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Test 1 · ★★ · Author's choices: why this word, why this way

«the author wrote 'Silence.' as a whole chapter cos he was being lazy lol». What's the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: author, whole chapter, chapter, best reply · What happens: write, co, be · To what, where: Silence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 21 «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» of the English 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.

The question

Sentence 1: «the author wrote 'Silence.' as a whole chapter cos he was being lazy lol».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 wrote	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 author	det
3	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrote	nsubj
4	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	'	's	PART	_	4 wrote	case
6	Silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrote	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wrote	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 wrote	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 cos	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 chapter	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chapter	amod
12	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cos	nsubj
13	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrote	advcl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lazy	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lazy	aux
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 lazy	cop
17	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cos	ccomp
18	lol	lol	INTJ	_	17 lazy	discourse
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 lazy	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wrote	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write in a quote	past	the author	Silence					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme
2	co in a quote	present	a whole chapter						tree rules
3	is in a quote	past · progressive	chapter					lazy property	tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: What's the best reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best reply						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he forgot the rest of the chapter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 forgot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 forgot	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgot	nsubj
4	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rest	det
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgot	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 chapter	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chapter	det
9	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	he	the rest of the chapter					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's on purpose, to make the moment stand out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 purpose	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 purpose	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 purpose	case
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 purpose	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moment	det
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 stand	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			purpose			tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive					moment		tree rules
3	stand out	infinitive							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No, it's because silence is a long word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 word	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 word	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 word	cop
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 word	mark
6	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 word	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 word	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 word	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 word	amod
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a long word					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, authors get paid by the word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	authors	author	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paid	nsubj:pass
4	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	aux:pass
5	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 word	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present · passive	the word	authors					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset

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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