Exam question 1 · Editing and redrafting

Identify the activity that constitutes proofreading.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, activity · What happens: identify, constitute, proofread · To what, where: activity

This is exam question 1 of lesson 43 «Editing and redrafting» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 activity	det
3	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 constitutes	nsubj
5	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 activity	acl:relcl
6	proofreading	proofread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 constitutes	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the activity	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent activity=Theme
2	constitute	present	the activity		tree rules
3	proofread	gerund	the activity not said here		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

The addition of a further chapter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 addition	det
2	addition	addition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 chapter	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chapter	det
5	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chapter	amod
6	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 addition	nmod

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

Option 2

The invention of a new plot for the narrative

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 invention	det
2	invention	invention	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 plot	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plot	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plot	amod
6	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 invention	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 narrative	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 narrative	det
9	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent			a new plot for the narrative					nom invention «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The replacement of the protagonist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 replacement	det
2	replacement	replacement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 protagonist	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 protagonist	det
5	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 replacement	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	replace			the protagonist					nom replacement «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Correction of spelling and punctuation errors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 errors	case
3	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 errors	compound
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 punctuation	cc
5	punctuation	punctuation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spelling	conj
6	errors	error	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Correction	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	correct			spelling errors					nom correction «act transitive»: of=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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