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Test 1 · ★★ · Writing to inform, instruct and persuade

Your mate goes "all writing's the same, bruv, just write loads." What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, writing, truth · What happens: go, be, write · To what, where: loads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 44 «Writing to inform, instruct and persuade» 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 "all writing's the same, bruv, just write loads."

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	_	9 same	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 writing	det
6	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 same	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 same	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goes	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 same	vocative
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 write	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 write	advmod
14	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 goes	conj
15	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 write	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	is in a quote	present	all writing					bruv vocative; same property	tree rules
3	write in a quote	infinitive	Your mate not said here	loads					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=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 · ← Mova's choice

Instructions and reports are the same as poems

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 same	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 reports	cc
3	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Instructions	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 same	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 poems	case
8	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 same	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Instructions and reports					as poems; same property	tree rules

Option 2

Only stories count as real writing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 stories	advmod
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 count	nsubj
3	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 writing	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 writing	amod
6	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	stories					as real writing	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as writing=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Each kind of writing has its own job and shape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 writing	case
4	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 job	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 job	amod
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shape	cc
10	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 job	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	each kind of writing	kind's own job and shape					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient
2	job		kind						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Writing more words always gets more marks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 gets	csubj
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Writing	obj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 gets	advmod
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 marks	amod
7	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	gerund		more words					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	get	present	Writing	more marks				always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus

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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