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Test 4 · ★★ · Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries

★★★ A leaflet says: «Sunnybay has 3 cafés, a lifeguard and the best sand on Earth!» Which part can be checked as a fact?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, leaflet, Sunnybay · What happens: ★, say, have, check · To what, where: 3 cafés, part · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: ★★★ A leaflet says: «Sunnybay has 3 cafés, a lifeguard and the best sand on Earth!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 leaflet	det
5	leaflet	leaflet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ★	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
9	Sunnybay	Sunnybay	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
11	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 cafés	nummod
12	cafés	café	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 has	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lifeguard	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lifeguard	det
15	lifeguard	lifeguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cafés	appos
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sand	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sand	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 sand	amod
19	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lifeguard	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 Earth	case
21	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sand	nmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	★	present	★						tree rules
2	say speech: express	present	a leaflet						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	Sunnybay	3 cafés					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent café=Patient

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: Which part can be checked as a fact?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 part	det
2	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 checked	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 checked	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 checked	aux:pass
5	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 fact	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fact	det
8	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 checked	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 checked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	can · passive		which part				as a fact	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme as fact=Value

The options

Option 1

None of it, because leaflets never contain facts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	8 contain	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 None	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 contain	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 contain	mark
6	leaflets	leaflet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 contain	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 contain	advmod
8	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 contain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not contain	present	None	facts					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fact=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It has 3 cafés and a lifeguard

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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 cafés	nummod
4	cafés	café	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lifeguard	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lifeguard	det
7	lifeguard	lifeguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cafés	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	3 cafés and a lifeguard					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent café=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Every part of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 part	det
2	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 part	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

It has the best sand on Earth

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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sand	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 sand	amod
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sand	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	the best sand		Earth			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=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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