Exam question 3 · Planning before writing

Select the planning format most appropriate in respect of a non-chronological report.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, respect · To what, where: planning format, respect, non-chronological report

This is exam question 3 of lesson 39 «Planning before writing» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 format	det
3	planning	planning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 format	compound
4	format	format	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 appropriate	amod
6	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 format	amod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 respect	case
8	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 report	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 report	det
11	non-chronological	non-chronological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 report	amod
12	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 respect	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the planning format		respect of a non-chronological report			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent format=Theme
2	respect			a non-chronological report					nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

A sequence of rhyming couplets arranged by stanza

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sequence	det
2	sequence	sequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 couplets	case
4	rhyming	rhyme	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 couplets	amod
5	couplets	couplet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sequence	nmod
6	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 couplets	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 stanza	case
8	stanza	stanza	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arranged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rhyme	gerund							vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	arrange	participle		rhyming couplets not said here				by stanza	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by stanza=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A mind map with a branch for each sub-topic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 map	det
2	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 map	compound
3	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 branch	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 branch	det
6	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 map	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 map	nmod
9	sub-topic	sub-topic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	acl

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

Option 3

A single uninterrupted sentence of considerable length

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sentence	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sentence	amod
3	uninterrupted	uninterrupted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sentence	amod
4	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 length	case
6	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 length	amod
7	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sentence	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sentence			considerable length					nom sentence «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

A story mountain culminating in a dramatic climax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mountain	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mountain	compound
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	culminating	culminate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 mountain	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 climax	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 climax	det
7	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 climax	amod
8	climax	climax	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 culminating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	culminate	gerund	a story mountain not said here			a dramatic climax			tree rules

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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