Test 5 · ★★★ · Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens

★★★ Which sentence uses a semicolon wrongly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★ · What happens: use · To what, where: semicolon

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens» 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 uses	nsubj
4	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 sentence	det
5	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	appos
6	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 semicolon	det
8	semicolon	semicolon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 uses	obj
9	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	_	6 uses	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 uses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	★ ★ ★	a semicolon				wrongly property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent semicolon=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

We went to the beach; because it was hot.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 beach	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beach	det
5	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 hot	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hot	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hot	cop
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	We			the beach			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location
2	is	past	beach					hot property	tree rules

Option 2

Mum laughed; Dad didn't.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct
4	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 did	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Mum						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not do	past	Dad						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It was late; the shops had shut.

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	3 late	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 late	cop
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 shut	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shops	det
6	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shut	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shut	aux
8	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 late	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 late	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					late property	tree rules
2	shut	past · perfect · passive		the shops					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 4

We went to the beach; it was hot.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 beach	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beach	det
5	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 hot	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hot	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hot	cop
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	We			the beach			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location
2	is	past	beach					hot property	tree rules

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