Test 6 · ★★★ · Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens
A Gen Z cousin texts "the vibe — immaculate." Which mark is she using to add drama?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Z cousin, vibe, mark · What happens: text, immaculate, use, add · To what, where: vibe, drama
This is test 6 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: A Gen Z cousin texts "the vibe — immaculate."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cousin | det |
| 2 | Gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Z | compound |
| 3 | Z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cousin | compound |
| 4 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 texts | nsubj |
| 5 | texts | text | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 vibe | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vibe | det |
| 8 | vibe | vibe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 texts | obj |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 immaculate | punct |
| 10 | immaculate | immaculate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 vibe | acl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 texts | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 texts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | text | present | a Z cousin | the vibe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | immaculate in a quote | infinitive | the vibe not said here | 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: Which mark is she using to add drama?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 mark | det |
| 2 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 using | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 using | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 using | nsubj |
| 5 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 add | mark |
| 7 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 using | advcl |
| 8 | drama | drama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 add | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 using | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · progressive | which mark | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | to-infinitive | which mark not said here | drama | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drama=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A dash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dash | det |
| 2 | dash | dash | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A semicolon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 semicolon | det |
| 2 | semicolon | semicolon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A colon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 colon | det |
| 2 | colon | colon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A hyphen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hyphen | det |
| 2 | hyphen | hyphen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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