Test 7 · ★★ · Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer

Which opening uses a question hook?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: opening · What happens: use · To what, where: question hook

This is test 7 · ★★ 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 opening	det
2	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	nsubj
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hook	det
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hook	compound
6	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 uses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	which opening	a question hook					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Patient

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

My name is Jo and I am nine years old.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 name	nmod:poss
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Jo	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Jo	cop
4	Jo	Jo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 old	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 old	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
8	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 old	obl:unmarked
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Jo	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Jo	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	My name	Jo			tree rules
2	is	present	I		year	old property	tree rules
3	name		My				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

It was a normal day in a normal house.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 day	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 day	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
8	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 house	amod
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a normal day		a normal house			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Have you ever heard a fridge whisper?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 heard	advmod
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 whisper	det
6	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whisper	compound
7	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	you	a fridge whisper			ever		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whisper=Stimulus

Option 4

The fridge in the kitchen was white.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fridge	det
2	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 white	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 kitchen	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kitchen	det
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fridge	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 white	cop
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 white	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fridge in the kitchen					white 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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