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description: «this letter ate, it's so convincing». What should you add to make this a good comment? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries

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«this letter ate, it's so convincing». What should you add to make this a good comment?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** letter, you · **What happens:** eat, be, add, make · **To what, where:** this

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» 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/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «this letter ate, it's so convincing».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries:t6:1
# text = «this letter ate, it's so convincing».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	convincing	convincing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | this letter |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | letter |  |  |  |  | convincing *property* | tree rules |

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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:* What should you add to make this a good comment?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries:t6:2
# text = What should you add to make this a good comment?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	comment	comment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | should | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset this=Beneficiary comment=Product |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Which parts persuade and why

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries:t6:o1:1
# text = Which parts persuade and why
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	persuade	persuade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persuade** | present | which parts |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The date

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries:t6:o2:1
# text = The date
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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More slang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries:t6:o3:1
# text = More slang
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The writer's address

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries:t6:o4:1
# text = The writer's address
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** |  | the writer |  |  |  |  |  | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=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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