Test 9 · ★★ · Writing to inform, instruct and persuade
A cousin in Texas says "Y'all should write the rules for the game real clear." What kind of text are rules for a game?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, Y'all, kind · What happens: say, write, be · To what, where: rules · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: A cousin in Texas says "Y'all should write the rules for the game real clear."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cousin | det |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cousin | nmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 write | punct |
| 7 | Y'all | y'all | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 write | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 write | aux |
| 9 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rules | det |
| 11 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 write | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 game | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 game | det |
| 14 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 write | obl |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 clear | amod |
| 16 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 write | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 write | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 write | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a cousin in Texas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | write in a quote | should | Y'all | the rules | for the game | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent rule=Result for game=Beneficiary |
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 kind of text are rules for a game?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rules | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 text | case |
| 4 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rules | cop |
| 6 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 game | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 game | det |
| 9 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rules | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 rules | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | what kind of text | rules | for a game | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A recount
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 recount | det |
| 2 | recount | recount | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Instructions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A poem
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 poem | det |
| 2 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A diary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 diary | det |
| 2 | diary | diary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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