Test 9 · Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell

Which is the best order for a talk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: best order

This is test 9 of lesson 48 «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 order	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 order	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 order	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 order	amod
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 talk	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 talk	det
8	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 order	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 order	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best order				for a talk	tree rules

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

Questions first, then the points, then a hook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Questions	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 points	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 points	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 points	det
6	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Questions	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hook	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 hook	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hook	det
10	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Questions	conj

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

Option 2

Sum up first, then the hook, then the topic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sum	sum	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Sum	compound:prt
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Sum	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hook	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 hook	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hook	det
7	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sum	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 topic	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 topic	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 topic	det
11	topic	topic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hook	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sum up	imperative	you not said here					first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Key points, then the hook, then stop dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Key	key	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 points	amod
2	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stop	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hook	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 hook	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hook	det
6	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 points	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 points	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 stop	advmod
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	infinitive	Key points and the hook				then	dead property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hook and topic, key points, sum up, questions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 topic	cc
3	topic	topic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hook	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 points	punct
5	key	key	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 points	amod
6	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hook	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sum	punct
8	sum	sum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hook	acl:relcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 sum	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 questions	punct
11	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hook	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sum up	infinitive	Hook and topic and key points and questions not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «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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