Exam question 1 · Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer

Identify the practice of observing the techniques employed by an author with a view to employing them oneself.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, practice · What happens: identify, observe, employ · To what, where: practice, techniques

This is exam question 1 of lesson 54 «Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 practice	det
3	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 observing	mark
5	observing	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 practice	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 techniques	det
7	techniques	technique	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 observing	obj
8	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 techniques	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 author	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 author	det
11	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 employed	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 view	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 view	det
14	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 author	nmod
15	to	to	SCONJ	_	16 employing	mark
16	employing	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 view	acl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 employing	obj
18	oneself	oneself	PRON	Case=Acc Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 employing	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the practice		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent practice=Theme
2	observe	gerund	the practice not said here	the techniques		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent technique=Topic
3	employ	participle		the techniques not said here	by a author with a view	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	employ	gerund		techniques = technique		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 · ✓ the right answer

Reading as a writer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 writer	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 writer	det
4	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund						as a writer	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as writer=Attribute

Option 2

Proofreading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proofreading	proofreading	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Paraphrasing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paraphrasing	paraphrasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Plagiarism

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plagiarism	plagiarism	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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