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Test 7 · Planning before writing

A boy in Sydney: "Gonna smash this story out this arvo, no plan." ("Arvo" is afternoon.) What is the risk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gonna, risk · What happens: smash out, be · To what, where: story, Arvo afternoon

This is test 7 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: A boy in Sydney: "Gonna smash this story out this arvo, no plan."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Sydney	case
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 smash	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 smash	punct
7	Gonna	Gonna	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 smash	nsubj
8	smash	smash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 boy	acl:relcl
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smash	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	8 smash	compound:prt
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 arvo	det
13	arvo	arvo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smash	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 plan	punct
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 plan	det
16	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arvo	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 boy	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 boy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash out in a quote	infinitive	Gonna	this story				this arvo and no plan obl	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme

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: ("Arvo" is afternoon.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 afternoon	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Arvo	punct
3	Arvo	Arvo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 afternoon	compound
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Arvo	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 afternoon	cop
6	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afternoon	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 afternoon	punct

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

Sentence 3: What is the risk?

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 risk	det
4	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Afternoons are bad for writing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Afternoons	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bad	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bad	cop
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 writing	case
5	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Afternoons					for writing; bad property	tree rules

Option 2

Nothing, plans never help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 help	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 help	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 help	advmod
5	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	present	Nothing						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He will write too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 write	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 write	aux
3	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	future	He	much					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He may get stuck or have no ending

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 have	cc
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 get	conj
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 ending	det
8	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	may	He					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	present	He not said here	no ending					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ending=Patient

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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