Test 11 · ★ · Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together
Which ordering signposts belong together in a non-fiction text?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ordering signposts · What happens: belong · To what, where: non-fiction text
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 37 «Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together» 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 ordering | det |
| 2 | ordering | ordering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 signposts | compound |
| 3 | signposts | signpost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 belong | nsubj |
| 4 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 belong | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 text | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 text | det |
| 8 | non-fiction | non-fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 text | compound |
| 9 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belong | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 belong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | ordering signposts | a non-fiction text | together property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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
Once, upon, time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Suddenly, crash, bang
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 crash | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suddenly | punct |
| 3 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bang | punct |
| 5 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crash | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Firstly, secondly, finally
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Firstly | firstly | ADV | _ | 3 secondly | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Firstly | punct |
| 3 | secondly | secondly | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 secondly | punct |
| 5 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 3 secondly | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
However, cats, purr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 purr | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 purr | compound |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cats | punct |
| 5 | purr | purr | 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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