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Test 1 · ★★ · Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer

Your mate says, "You're born a writer or you're not, end of." Put him right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, you · What happens: say, bear, not be, put · To what, where: You, mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 54 «Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer» 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: Your mate says, "You're born a writer or you're not, end of."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 born	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 born	punct
6	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 born	nsubj:pass
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 born	aux:pass
8	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 writer	det
10	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 born	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 end	cc
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 end	nsubj
13	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 end	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 end	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 end	punct
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 born	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 end	case
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bear in a quote	present · passive		You					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary writer=Patient
3	not is in a quote	present	you				of end		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.

Sentence 2: Put him right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		mate			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He is right: it is all fixed when you are born

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 fixed	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fixed	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fixed	aux:pass
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 fixed	advmod
8	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 right	parataxis
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 born	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 born	nsubj:pass
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 born	aux:pass
12	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fixed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	fix	present · passive		it				all property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
3	bear	present · passive		you					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Writing improves with practice, like any skill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 improves	nsubj
2	improves	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 practice	case
4	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 improves	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 skill	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 skill	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 skill	det
8	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 improves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve	present	Writing					with practice	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with practice=Instrument

Option 3

Only grown-ups can ever get better at writing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 ups	advmod
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 get	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 writing	case
10	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	can	grown ups			writing	ever	good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Reading and writing have nothing to do with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 writing	cc
3	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reading	conj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nothing	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Reading and writing	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	Reading and writing not said here	nothing not said here				with writing	vn act-114-1 «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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