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Test 1 · ★ · Describing: senses, showing and precise words

Your mate goes "more adjectives means better writing, bro, just stack 'em." What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, more adjectives, truth · What happens: go, mean, stack, be · To what, where: better writing, 'em · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 41 «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» 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 "more adjectives means better writing, bro, just stack 'em."

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 adjectives	punct
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 adjectives	amod
6	adjectives	adjective	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 means	nsubj
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	parataxis
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 writing	amod
9	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 writing	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stack	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 stack	advmod
14	stack	stack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 means	conj
15	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stack	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
17	"	"	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	mean in a quote	present	more adjectives	better writing and bro					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Topic
3	stack in a quote	infinitive	more adjectives not said here	'em = they					vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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: 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

Adjectives are banned in good writing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adjectives	adjective	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 banned	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 banned	aux:pass
3	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 writing	case
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 writing	amod
6	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	present · passive		Adjectives		good writing			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Only adverbs make writing better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 adverbs	advmod
2	adverbs	adverb	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	adverbs	writing				good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset writing=Product

Option 3

The more adjectives you stack, the better your writing always gets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 adjectives	det
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 adjectives	amod
3	adjectives	adjective	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 better	nsubj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 stack	nsubj
5	stack	stack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 adjectives	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 better	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 better	det
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 writing	nmod:poss
10	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gets	nsubj
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 gets	advmod
12	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 better	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stack	present	you	the more adjectives not said here					vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent adjective=Theme
2	get	present	your writing					always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	write		your						nom writing «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

One precise word beats a pile of same-meaning ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 word	nummod
2	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 word	amod
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beats	nsubj
4	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pile	det
6	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beats	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 ones	case
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 meaning	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 same	punct
10	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ones	compound
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pile	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	One precise word	a pile of meaning ones					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pile=Theme

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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