Test 8 · ★★★ · Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens

★★★ Choose the best punctuation: "We visited Leeds, England ___ Cork, Ireland ___ and Perth, Australia."

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, We · What happens: choose, visit · To what, where: best punctuation, Leeds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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	4 Choose	nsubj
4	Choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 punctuation	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 punctuation	amod
7	punctuation	punctuation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Choose	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 visited	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 visited	punct
10	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 visited	nsubj
11	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Choose	parataxis
12	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 visited	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 England	punct
14	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Leeds	conj
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 visited	punct
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 visited	punct
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 Cork	punct
18	Cork	cork	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 visited	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Ireland	punct
20	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Cork	appos
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 visited	punct
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 visited	punct
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 visited	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Perth	cc
25	Perth	Perth	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 visited	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Australia	punct
27	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Perth	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Choose	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Choose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	infinitive	★ ★ ★	the best punctuation					tree rules
2	visit in a quote	past	We	Leeds and England					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leeds=Co-Agent

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

Hyphens in both gaps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hyphens	hyphen	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 gaps	case
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 gaps	det
4	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hyphens	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Commas in both gaps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Commas	comma	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 gaps	case
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 gaps	det
4	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Commas	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Colons in both gaps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colons	colon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 gaps	case
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 gaps	det
4	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Colons	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Semicolons in both gaps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Semicolons	semicolon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 gaps	case
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 gaps	det
4	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Semicolons	nmod

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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