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Test 9 · Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up

«her writing's ugly so her story's rubbish». What is the fair answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: her, fair answer · What happens: write, be

This is test 9 of lesson 5 «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» 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: «her writing's ugly so her story's rubbish».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 ugly	punct
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 writing	nmod:poss
3	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ugly	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 writing	case
5	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 rubbish	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 story	nmod:poss
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rubbish	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 story	case
10	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ugly	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 ugly	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ugly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write in a quote		her = she						nom writing «act transitive»: poss=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.

Sentence 2: What is the fair answer?

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	5 answer	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fair answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Messy writing means a bad story every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 writing	amod
2	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Messy writing	a bad story			time		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic

Option 2

Stories are only marked on neatness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 marked	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 marked	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 marked	advmod
4	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 neatness	case
6	neatness	neatness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	present · passive		Stories		neatness			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on neatness=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Neat writing makes any story better, whatever the words say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 writing	amod
2	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 whatever	punct
8	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 say	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 words	det
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Neat writing	any story				good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product
2	say speech: assert	present	the words	whatever					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A great story can be in messy writing; they're different skills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 story	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 story	amod
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 writing	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 writing	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 writing	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 writing	case
7	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 writing	amod
8	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 skills	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 skills	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 skills	cop
12	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 skills	amod
13	skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 writing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	a great story			messy writing and different skills			tree rules
2	is a	present	writing	different skills					tree rules

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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