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Test 10 · ★★ · Writing to inform, instruct and persuade

Your sister, sarky: "Your 'balanced' argument has six reasons for and zero against. Very fair." What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister · What happens: have, be · To what, where: six reasons

This is test 10 · ★★ 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 sister, sarky: "Your 'balanced' argument has six reasons for and zero against.

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 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 has	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sarky	punct
4	sarky	sarky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sister	amod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 sister	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 balanced	punct
7	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 '	nmod:poss
8	'	'	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 balanced	nsubj
9	balanced	balanced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 argument	amod
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 balanced	punct
11	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sister	conj
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 reasons	nummod
14	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 has	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 zero	case
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 zero	cc
17	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 reasons	nmod
18	against	against	ADP	_	17 zero	case
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Your sister and balanced argument	six reasons				for zero	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient

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: Very fair."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 fair	advmod
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fair	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 fair	punct

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

Sentence 3: What is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It has too many paragraphs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 paragraphs	amod
5	paragraphs	paragraph	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	many paragraphs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paragraph=Patient

Option 2

It has a headline

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 headline	det
4	headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	a headline					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headline=Patient

Option 3

It uses the past tense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tense	det
4	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tense	amod
5	tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	It	the past tense					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tense=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It gives only one side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 side	nummod
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	It	one side					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=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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