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Test 8 · Commas: lists, clauses and clarity

Kai, Year 5, writes "Before the match, we had pizza, it was nice." What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kai, we, pizza · What happens: write, have, be · To what, where: pizza · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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

Sentence 1: Kai, Year 5, writes "Before the match, we had pizza, it was nice."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 writes	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 5	punct
3	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 5	nmod:unmarked
4	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Kai	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kai	punct
6	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
8	Before	before	ADP	_	10 match	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 match	det
10	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 match	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 writes	ccomp
14	pizza	pizza	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 nice	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 nice	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 nice	cop
18	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 had	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 writes	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	Kai						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	past	we	pizza			before the match		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pizza=Patient
3	is in a quote	past	pizza					nice 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 is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

"Pizza" needs capital letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Pizza	punct
2	Pizza	pizza	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Pizza	punct
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 letters	compound
6	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Pizza	capital letters					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot letter=Theme

Option 2

It needs a comma after "had"

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 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 comma	det
4	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 comma	acl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 comma	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	It	a comma					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot comma=Theme
2	have in a quote	past	a comma not said here						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The second comma joins two sentences: a splice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 comma	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 comma	amod
3	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joins	nsubj
4	joins	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sentences	nummod
6	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 joins	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 splice	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 splice	det
9	splice	splice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joins	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	present	the second comma	two sentences					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient

Option 4

The first comma, after "match", should not be there at all

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 comma	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 comma	amod
3	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 there	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 match	punct
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 match	case
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 match	punct
7	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comma	appos
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 match	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 comma	punct
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 there	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 there	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 there	cop
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 there	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	should	the first comma			all		there 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.

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