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Test 5 · ★★ · Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries

★★★ Paper A: «Brave Rovers fought hard but lost 2–1 to lucky City.» Paper B: «City deserved their 2–1 win over Rovers.» What is the one fact both agree on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, City, Rovers, one fact · What happens: fight, lose, deserve, win, be, agree · To what, where: 2, lucky City, 2 win, Rovers

This is test 5 · ★★ 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: ★★★ Paper A: «Brave Rovers fought hard but lost 2–1 to lucky City.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fought	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	PUNCT	_	4 Paper	punct
4	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	appos
5	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	1 ★	conj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 fought	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 Rovers	punct
8	Brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Rovers	amod
9	Rovers	Rover	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 fought	nsubj
10	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 fought	advmod
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 lost	cc
13	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fought	conj
14	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 lost	obj
15	–	–	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	16 1	case
16	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 2	nmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 City	case
18	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 City	amod
19	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lost	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fought	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 fought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight in a quote	past	★					hard property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lose in a quote	past	★ not said here	2	lucky City			– 1	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Eventuality

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: Paper B: «City deserved their 2–1 win over Rovers.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 B	compound
2	B	B	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 deserved	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 deserved	punct
5	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 deserved	nsubj
6	deserved	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 B	acl:relcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 win	nmod:poss
8	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 win	nummod
9	–	–	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	10 1	case
10	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 2	nmod
11	win	win	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deserved	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 Rovers	case
13	Rovers	rover	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deserved	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 B	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 B	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deserve in a quote	past	City	Rovers's 2 win		Rovers			tree rules
2	win in a quote		Rovers = rover						nom win «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Sentence 3: What is the one fact both agree on?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fact	det
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 fact	nummod
5	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	both	both	ADV	_	7 agree	advmod
7	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fact	acl:relcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 agree	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the one fact						tree rules
2	agree speech: agree	present	the one fact not said here					both property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Rovers were brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rovers	rover	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brave	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brave	cop
3	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Rovers					brave property	tree rules

Option 2

City were lucky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	City	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lucky	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lucky	cop
3	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	City					lucky property	tree rules

Option 3

City deserved to win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 deserved	nsubj
2	deserved	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 win	mark
4	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 deserved	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deserve	past	City						tree rules
2	win	to-infinitive	City not said here						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

City won 2–1

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	City	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 won	obj
4	–	–	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	5 1	case
5	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 2	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	City	2				– 1	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Eventuality

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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