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Test 1 · ★★ · Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries

«Surely you agree?» Does the writer want an actual answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, writer · What happens: agree, want · To what, where: actual answer

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» 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: «Surely you agree?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 agree	punct
2	Surely	surely	ADV	_	4 agree	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 agree	nsubj
4	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 agree	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 agree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree in a quote	present	you					surely property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Does the writer want an actual answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 writer	det
3	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 answer	det
6	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 answer	amod
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	the writer	a actual answer					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot answer=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, it's a full stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's a rhetorical question to push you to agree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 question	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 question	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 question	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 question	det
6	rhetorical	rhetorical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 question	amod
7	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 push	mark
9	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 question	acl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 push	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 agree	mark
12	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 push	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a rhetorical question					tree rules
2	push	to-infinitive		you					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	agree speech: agree	to-infinitive							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, it's a quiz

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 quiz	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quiz	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 quiz	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 quiz	det
6	quiz	quiz	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes, the head must write back with an answer to the question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 write	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 head	det
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 write	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 write	aux
6	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 write	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 answer	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 answer	det
10	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 write	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 question	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 question	det
13	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 write	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write back	must	the head		the question			with a answer	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to question=Recipient

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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