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Test 1 · ★ · Openings that hook the reader

Your mate goes "first line don't matter, the teacher reads it all anyway, innit." What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, teacher, truth · What happens: go, not matter, read, be · To what, where: first line, mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 40 «Openings that hook the reader» 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: Your mate goes "first line don't matter, the teacher reads it all anyway, innit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 line	punct
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 line	amod
6	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 matter	obl
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 matter	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 matter	advmod
9	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 goes	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reads	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 teacher	det
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reads	nsubj
13	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 reads	obj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 it	det
16	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	13 reads	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 innit	punct
18	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reads	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not matter in a quote	present · do-support	Your mate not said here	first line					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	read in a quote	present	the teacher	mate				anyway property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

Sentence 2: What is the truth?

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 truth	det
4	truth	truth	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 truth						tree rules

The options

Option 1

The first line is the least important part of a story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 line	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 line	amod
3	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 part	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 part	det
6	least	least	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 important	advmod
7	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 part	amod
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 story	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 story	det
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the first line	the important part				of a story	tree rules

Option 2

Only the title matters to readers, never the words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 title	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 title	det
3	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matters	nsubj
4	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 readers	case
6	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 matters	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 words	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 words	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 words	det
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 matters	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	the title	the words				to readers	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to reader=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Teachers never read past the first line of anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 read	advmod
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	past	past	ADP	_	7 line	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 line	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 line	amod
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 anything	case
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 line	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not read	past	Teachers					past the first line of anything	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Real readers decide early whether to go on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 readers	amod
2	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 decide	nsubj
3	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 decide	advmod
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	7 go	mark
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 decide	xcomp
8	on	on	ADV	_	7 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	Real readers					early property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go on not said to happen	to-infinitive	Real readers not said here						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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