Test 4 · ★★ · Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer

Which line is "telling", not "showing"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: line · What happens: tell, not show · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 line	det
2	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 telling	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 telling	aux
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 telling	punct
5	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 telling	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 showing	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 showing	advmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 showing	punct
10	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 telling	parataxis
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 showing	punct
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 telling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	which line						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not show in a quote	gerund							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

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

Tom was angry.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 angry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tom					angry property	tree rules

Option 2

Tom's face went bright red.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 face	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Tom	case
3	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 red	amod
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Tom's face					red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Tom clenched both of his fists.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 clenched	nsubj
2	clenched	clench	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 clenched	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fists	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fists	nmod:poss
6	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 both	nmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 clenched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clench	past	Tom	both					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Patient

Option 4

Tom slammed the door.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 slammed	nsubj
2	slammed	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slammed	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 slammed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slam	past	Tom	the door					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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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