Test 2 · ★ · Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together

★★★ A story goes: (1) At home, Mia packs. (2) On the train, she reads. (3) Still on the train, a man sits down. (4) The next morning, in Paris, she wakes. How many paragraphs by TiPToP, if a new person arriving counts?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, story, man, Paris, new person, TiPToP · What happens: ★, go, read, sit down, wake, arrive · To what, where: 1 Mia packs, train, Paris

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: ★★★ A story goes: (1) At home, Mia packs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 goes	advcl
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 1	punct
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 1	punct
9	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 packs	nummod
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 1	punct
11	At	at	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 1	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 1	punct
14	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 packs	compound
15	packs	pack	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 goes	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	★	present	★						tree rules
2	go	present	a story	1 Mia packs					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pack=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.

Sentence 2: (2) On the train, she reads.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 2	punct
2	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 reads	discourse
3	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 2	punct
4	On	on	ADP	_	6 train	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 train	det
6	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reads	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 train	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reads	nsubj
9	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	story			the train			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: (3) Still on the train, a man sits down.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 3	punct
2	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 3	punct
4	Still	still	ADV	_	2 3	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 train	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 train	det
7	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 3	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sits	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sits	nsubj
11	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 3	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 sits	compound:prt
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 3	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	present	a man						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 4: (4) The next morning, in Paris, she wakes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 4	punct
2	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 morning	nummod
3	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 4	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 morning	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 morning	amod
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wakes	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Paris	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Paris	case
9	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 wakes	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wakes	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wakes	nsubj
12	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 wakes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	present	Paris			Paris	morning		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Sentence 5: How many paragraphs by TiPToP, if a new person arriving counts?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 paragraphs	amod
3	paragraphs	paragraph	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 TiPToP	case
5	TiPToP	TiPToP	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 paragraphs	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 counts	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 counts	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 person	amod
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 counts	compound
11	arriving	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 person	acl
12	counts	count	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paragraphs	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 paragraphs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	gerund	a new person not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	paragraph		TiPToP						nom paragraph «communication intransitive»: by=agent

The options

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

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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