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Test 1 · Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report

«a recount is just a story innit». What's the difference?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: recount, difference · What happens: be · To what, where: story innit

This is test 1 of lesson 23 «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» 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: «a recount is just a story innit».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 recount	det
3	recount	recount	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 innit	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 innit	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 innit	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 innit	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 innit	compound
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	a recount	a story innit					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 difference?

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	4 difference	det
4	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

A recount is always made up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 recount	det
2	recount	recount	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 made	advmod
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 made	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	present · passive		a recount				always property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A recount retells real events; a story can be made up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 recount	det
2	recount	recount	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 retells	nsubj
3	retells	retell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 events	amod
5	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 retells	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	nsubj:pass
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 made	aux:pass
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 retells	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 made	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retell	present	a recount	real events					tree rules
2	make up	can · passive		a story					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

Option 3

A recount has no order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 recount	det
2	recount	recount	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 order	det
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a recount	no order					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient

Option 4

There's no difference at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 's	expl
2	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 difference	det
4	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 's	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 difference	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no difference at all			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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