Test 3 · ★★ · Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries

★★ Which line belongs in a diary, not a newspaper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ · What happens: belong · To what, where: diary

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belongs	nsubj
3	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 line	det
4	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belongs	nsubj
5	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 diary	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 diary	det
8	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belongs	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 newspaper	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 newspaper	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 newspaper	det
12	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 diary	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 belongs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present	★ ★			a diary and a newspaper			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nine-year-old Ella Brown rescued six ducklings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 year	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Nine	punct
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 old	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 year	punct
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Brown	amod
6	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Brown	compound
7	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 rescued	nsubj
8	rescued	rescue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 ducklings	nummod
10	ducklings	duckling	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rescued	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rescue	past	old Ella Brown	six ducklings					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duckling=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

I was so embarrassed I wanted to hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 embarrassed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 embarrassed	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 embarrassed	advmod
4	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	nsubj
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 embarrassed	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hide	mark
8	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	I	embarrassed property	tree rules
2	want	past	I		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

«It was terrifying,» said Mrs Patel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 terrifying	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 terrifying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrifying	cop
4	terrifying	terrifying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 terrifying	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 terrifying	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	Patel	Patel	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Mrs	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	It					terrifying property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Mrs						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Police said the road will reopen on Friday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reopen	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 reopen	aux
6	reopen	reopen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Friday	case
8	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reopen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Police						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	reopen	future	the road				friday		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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