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Test 5 · ★★ · Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer

A cartoon writes a conversation on one line with no speech marks. Fix it.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, you · What happens: write, fix · To what, where: conversation, one line

This is test 5 · ★★ 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: A cartoon writes a conversation on one line with no speech marks.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	nsubj
3	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 conversation	det
5	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 line	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 line	nummod
8	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conversation	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 marks	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 marks	det
11	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marks	compound
12	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 line	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	a cartoon	a conversation		one line with no speech marks			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme on line=Destination

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: Fix it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fix	obj
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	imperative	you not said here	conversation					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

More exclamation marks on every word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 marks	amod
2	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marks	compound
3	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 word	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marks	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Speech marks, and a new line per speaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marks	compound
2	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 line	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 line	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 line	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 line	amod
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marks	nmod
8	per	per	ADP	_	9 speaker	case
9	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 line	nmod

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

Option 3

All of it written in capital letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 written	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 All	nmod
4	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 letters	case
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 letters	compound
7	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle · passive		All		capital letters			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in letter=Destination

Option 4

Nothing; it is fine just as it is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 fine	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 is	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 is	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 is	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	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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