Test 5 · ★★ · Author's choices: why this word, why this way

★★★ In a story, a character always speaks in long, fancy words, like «I shall partake of my luncheon.» What is the author most likely showing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character, author · What happens: speak, partake, be · To what, where: long fancy words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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: ★★★ In a story, a character always speaks in long, fancy words, like «I shall partake of my luncheon.»

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 is the author most likely showing?

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The character is posh or old-fashioned

Option 2

The author swallowed a dictionary

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The character can't speak English

Option 4

The character is a baby

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