Exam question 3 · Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"

Ascertain the term denoting the linking of ideas such that a written piece holds together.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, term, written piece · What happens: ascertain, denote, write, hold together · To what, where: term, linking

This is exam question 3 of lesson 53 «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	denoting	denote	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 term	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 linking	det
6	linking	linking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 denoting	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 ideas	case
8	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 linking	nmod
9	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ideas	amod
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 holds	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 piece	det
12	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 piece	amod
13	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 holds	nsubj
14	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 such	advcl
15	together	together	ADV	_	14 holds	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the term		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Topic
2	denote	gerund	the term not said here	the linking of ideas		vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot linking=Topic
3	write	participle				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hold together	present	a written piece		together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cohesion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cohesion	cohesion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Rebuttal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rebuttal	rebuttal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Alliteration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alliteration	alliteration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Projection

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Projection	projection	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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