Test 5 · Planning before writing
★★★ Grace's story ended "and then they all died, the end." Which part of the story mountain did she skip?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, they, part · What happens: end, die, skip · To what, where: end
This is test 5 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ Grace's story ended "and then they all died, the end."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ended | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 4 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Grace | case |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ended | nsubj |
| 7 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ended | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 died | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 died | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 died | nsubj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 they | det |
| 13 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ended | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 end | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 died | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ended | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ended | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | ★ | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | die in a quote | past | they | the end | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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: Which part of the story mountain did she skip?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 part | det |
| 2 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skip | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mountain | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mountain | compound |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 part | nmod |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 skip | aux |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 skip | nsubj |
| 9 | skip | skip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 skip | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | past · do-support | which part of the story mountain | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The title
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 title | det |
| 2 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The resolution
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 resolution | det |
| 2 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The opening
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 opening | det |
| 2 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The build-up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 up | det |
| 2 | build | build | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 up | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 build | punct |
| 4 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/39-planning-before-writing/t5/