Test 10 · Planning before writing

Which question should come first when planning a piece of writing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: question · What happens: come, plan · To what, where: piece

This is test 10 of lesson 39 «Planning before writing» 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 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 come	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 planning	advmod
7	planning	plan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 come	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 piece	det
9	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 planning	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 writing	case
11	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 piece	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	should	which question					first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	plan	gerund	which question not said here	a piece of writing					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic

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

What is my favourite word?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 word	nmod:poss
4	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	my favourite word						tree rules
2	word		my						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Who is it for, and why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Who	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Who	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	1 Who	case
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 why	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 why	cc
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Who	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Who	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it						tree rules

Option 3

How many pages can I fill?

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 pages	amod
3	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fill	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fill	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 fill	nsubj
6	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	can	many pages						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

What colour pen do I use?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pen	compound
3	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 use	nsubj
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · do-support	colour pen						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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