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title: «Yesterday I visited Gran.» Change it to third person. — Reading non-fiction: recount, instruct… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Yesterday I visited Gran.» Change it to third person. Test 9 of lesson 23 «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 9 · Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report

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«Yesterday I visited Gran.» Change it to third person.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** visit, change · **To what, where:** Gran, it

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This is test 9 of lesson 23 «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Yesterday I visited Gran.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report:t9:1
# text = «Yesterday I visited Gran.»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** *in a quote* | past | I | Gran |  |  | yesterday |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gran=Co-Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Change it to third person.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report:t9:2
# text = Change it to third person.
1	Change	change	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | to third person | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Visit Gran yesterday.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report:t9:o1:1
# text = Visit Gran yesterday.
1	Visit	visit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | imperative | you *not said here* | Gran |  |  | yesterday |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gran=Co-Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yesterday Jo visited Gran.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report:t9:o2:1
# text = Yesterday Jo visited Gran.
1	Yesterday	Yesterday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Jo	Jo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past | Yesterday Jo | Gran |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gran=Co-Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yesterday I visited my gran.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report:t9:o3:1
# text = Yesterday I visited my gran.
1	Yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past | I | my gran |  |  | yesterday |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gran=Co-Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Tomorrow I'll visit Gran.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report:t9:o4:1
# text = Tomorrow I'll visit Gran.
1	Tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | future | I | Gran |  |  | tomorrow |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gran=Co-Agent |

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**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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