Test 10 · Commas: lists, clauses and clarity

Which sentence uses the pair of commas to wrap extra information?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sentence · What happens: use, wrap · To what, where: pair, extra information

This is test 10 of lesson 33 «Commas: lists, clauses and clarity» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 sentence	det
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	nsubj
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pair	det
5	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 commas	case
7	commas	comma	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pair	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 wrap	mark
9	wrap	wrap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 uses	advcl
10	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 information	amod
11	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wrap	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 uses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	which sentence	the pair of commas					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient
2	wrap	to-infinitive	which sentence not said here	extra information					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent information=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 · ✓ the right answer

Mr Lee, our teacher, is tall.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tall	nsubj
2	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 teacher	punct
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 teacher	nmod:poss
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mr	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mr	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tall	cop
8	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mr					tall property	tree rules

Option 2

Mr, Lee our teacher is tall.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tall	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Lee	punct
3	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr	flat
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 teacher	nmod:poss
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tall	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tall	cop
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mr					tall property	tree rules

Option 3

Mr Lee our, teacher is tall.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tall	nsubj
2	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr	flat
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	1 Mr	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mr	punct
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tall	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tall	cop
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mr our					tall property	tree rules

Option 4

Mr Lee, our teacher is tall.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tall	nsubj
2	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tall	punct
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 teacher	nmod:poss
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tall	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tall	cop
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mr					tall property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/t10/