Test 8 · Planning before writing
★★★ Which plan fits a letter to a head teacher asking for a longer break?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, letter · What happens: fit, ask · To what, where: letter, head teacher
This is test 8 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 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fits | nsubj |
| 4 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 5 plan | det |
| 5 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 letter | det |
| 8 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fits | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 teacher | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 teacher | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 teacher | compound |
| 12 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 letter | nmod |
| 13 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 letter | acl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 break | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 break | det |
| 16 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 break | amod |
| 17 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asking | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 fits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | ★ ★ ★ which plan | a letter | a head teacher | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient to teacher=Goal | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | a letter not said here | for a longer break | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Opening, monster attack, escape, ending
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 attack | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Opening | punct |
| 3 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attack | compound |
| 4 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 escape | punct |
| 6 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attack | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ending | punct |
| 8 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attack | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Rhyme, rhythm, verse, chorus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rhythm | punct |
| 3 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rhyme | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 verse | punct |
| 5 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rhyme | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chorus | punct |
| 7 | chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rhyme | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Character, setting, dragon, twist
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 setting | punct |
| 3 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Character | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dragon | punct |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Character | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 twist | punct |
| 7 | twist | twist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Character | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Reason 1, reason 2, reason 3, polite request
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Reason | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reason | punct |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Reason | conj |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 reason | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reason | punct |
| 7 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Reason | conj |
| 8 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 reason | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 request | punct |
| 10 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 request | amod |
| 11 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Reason | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/39-planning-before-writing/t8/