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Test 7 · ★ · Openings that hook the reader

Your brother, dead sarcastic: "Wow, 'It was a dark and stormy night'. So original." What is he hinting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sarcastic, he · What happens: be, hint · To what, where: dark night

This is test 7 · ★ 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 brother, dead sarcastic: "Wow, 'It was a dark and stormy night'.

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 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sarcastic	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sarcastic	amod
5	sarcastic	sarcastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brother	conj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Wow	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Wow	punct
8	Wow	wow	INTJ	_	2 brother	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 night	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 night	punct
11	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 night	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 night	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 night	det
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 night	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stormy	cc
16	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dark	conj
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Wow	appos
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 night	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brother	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	sarcastic	a dark night					tree rules

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: So original."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	2 original	advmod
2	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 original	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 original	punct

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

Sentence 3: What is he hinting?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 hinting	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hinting	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hinting	nsubj
4	hinting	hint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hinting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hint speech: other	present · progressive	he						vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The opening is too long

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	5 long	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 long	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

The opening is very fresh

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	5 fresh	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fresh	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 fresh	advmod
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

The opening is a question

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	5 question	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 question	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 question	det
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The opening is a cliché

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	5 cliché	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cliché	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cliché	det
5	cliché	cliché	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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