Test 7 · Editing and redrafting

★★★ Which change is an edit, not a proofread?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★ · What happens: be, not proofread · To what, where: edit

This is test 7 of lesson 43 «Editing and redrafting» 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	8 edit	nsubj
4	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 change	det
5	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	nmod:unmarked
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 edit	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 edit	det
8	edit	edit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 proofread	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 proofread	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 proofread	det
12	proofread	proofread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 edit	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 edit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	★ ★ ★ which change	a edit					tree rules
2	not proofread	participle		a edit 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

Changing "dont" to "don't"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dont	punct
3	dont	dont	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Changing	obj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dont	punct
5	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Changing	advcl
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 do	advmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	gerund		dont					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dont=Patient
2	not do in a quote	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Adding a sentence showing a feeling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adding	add	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 showing	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sentence	det
3	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Adding	obj
4	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 feeling	det
6	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 showing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	gerund		a sentence					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient
2	show	gerund	Adding	a feeling					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feeling=Recipient

Option 3

Adding a full stop at the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stop	det
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stop	amod
4	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Adding	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 end	det
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Adding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	gerund		a full stop			at the end		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stop=Patient

Option 4

Changing "i" to "I"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 I	csubj
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 i	punct
3	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Changing	ccomp
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 i	punct
5	to	to	PART	_	7 I	mark
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 I	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 I	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	gerund							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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