Test 6 · ★★ · Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries
«this letter ate, it's so convincing». What should you add to make this a good comment?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: letter, you · What happens: eat, be, add, make · To what, where: this
This is test 6 · ★★ 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: «this letter ate, it's so convincing».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 letter | det |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ate | nsubj |
| 4 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 convincing | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 convincing | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 convincing | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 convincing | advmod |
| 9 | convincing | convincing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ate | conj |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | past | this letter | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | letter | convincing property | 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 should you add to make this a good comment?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 add | obl |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 add | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 add | nsubj |
| 4 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 add | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 comment | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 comment | amod |
| 10 | comment | comment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 add | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | should | you | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | this | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset this=Beneficiary comment=Product |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Which parts persuade and why
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 parts | det |
| 2 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 persuade | nsubj |
| 3 | persuade | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 why | cc |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 persuade | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persuade | present | which parts | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The date
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 date | det |
| 2 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
More slang
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 slang | amod |
| 2 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The writer's address
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 writer | det |
| 2 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 address | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 writer | case |
| 4 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | the writer | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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