Test 2 · Planning before writing

★★★ A 40-minute test: which plan of time is most sensible?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, plan · What happens: ★, be, plan · To what, where: 40-minute test, time

This is test 2 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 test	det
5	40-minute	40-minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 test	compound
6	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 sensible	punct
8	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 plan	det
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sensible	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 time	case
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plan	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sensible	cop
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 sensible	advmod
14	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ★	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	★	present	★	a 40-minute test		tree rules
2	is	present	which plan of time		sensible property	tree rules
3	plan			time		nom plan «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 · ✓ the right answer

5 minutes planning, 30 writing, 5 checking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 planning	compound
3	planning	planning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 writing	punct
5	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 writing	nummod
6	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 planning	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 5	punct
8	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 planning	appos
9	checking	check	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 5	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

30 minutes planning, 10 writing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 planning	compound
3	planning	planning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 writing	punct
5	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 writing	nummod
6	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 planning	conj

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

Option 3

20 planning, 20 checking, no writing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 planning	nummod
2	planning	planning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 checking	punct
4	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 checking	nsubj
5	checking	check	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 planning	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 writing	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 writing	det
8	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 planning	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	gerund	20						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

0 planning, 40 writing, no checking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	0	0	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 planning	nummod
2	planning	planning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 writing	punct
4	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 writing	nummod
5	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 planning	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 checking	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 checking	det
8	checking	checking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 planning	conj

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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