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Test 5 · ★ · Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together

A Scottish nan says "Yer story's braw, hen, but it's aw wan lump." ("Braw" is lovely, "hen" a friendly word, "aw wan lump" is all one lump.) What does she want?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Scottish nan, nan, Braw, friendly word · What happens: say, be, want · To what, where: aw wan lump, one lump · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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 Scottish nan says "Yer story's braw, hen, but it's aw wan lump."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nan	det
2	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nan	amod
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 braw	punct
6	Yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 story	nmod:poss
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 braw	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 story	case
9	braw	braw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hen	punct
11	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 braw	vocative
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lump	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 lump	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lump	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 lump	cop
16	aw	aw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lump	amod
17	wan	wan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lump	amod
18	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 lump	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 lump	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a Scottish nan						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	nan	aw wan lump					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: ("Braw" is lovely, "hen" a friendly word, "aw wan lump" is all one lump.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 Braw	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Braw	punct
3	Braw	Braw	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lovely	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Braw	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lovely	cop
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hen	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 hen	punct
9	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lovely	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 hen	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 word	det
12	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 word	amod
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lump	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lump	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 lump	punct
16	aw	aw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lump	amod
17	wan	wan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lump	amod
18	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 word	appos
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 lump	punct
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 lump	cop
21	all	all	ADV	_	23 lump	advmod
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 lump	nummod
23	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lovely	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lovely	punct
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 lovely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Braw					lovely property	tree rules
2	is a	present	a friendly word	one lump				all property	tree rules

Sentence 3: What does she want?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 want	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	Braw						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A shorter title

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 title	det
2	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 title	amod
3	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Bigger handwriting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 handwriting	amod
2	handwriting	handwriting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

More pictures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 pictures	amod
2	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Paragraphs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paragraphs	paragraph	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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