Test 8 · ★★ · Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer
A story ends: "…and the 'monster' in the attic was Grandad's old radio." What kind of ending is this?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: story, monster, this · What happens: end, be · To what, where: old radio, kind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★★ 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 story ends: "…and the 'monster' in the attic was Grandad's old radio."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ends | nsubj |
| 3 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 ends | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ends | punct |
| 6 | … | … | PUNCT | _ | 10 monster | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 monster | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 monster | det |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 monster | punct |
| 10 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 radio | nsubj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 monster | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 attic | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 attic | det |
| 14 | attic | attic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 monster | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 radio | cop |
| 16 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 radio | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Grandad | case |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 radio | amod |
| 19 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ends | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 radio | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 radio | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | a story | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | the monster in the attic | Grandad's old radio | 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: What kind of ending is this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 ending | case |
| 4 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 kind | cop |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 kind | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 kind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | what kind | of ending | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
A twist
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 twist | det |
| 2 | twist | twist | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A simile
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 simile | det |
| 2 | simile | simile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A cliché
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cliché | det |
| 2 | cliché | cliché | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A hook
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hook | det |
| 2 | hook | hook | 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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