--- title: Which shows the sofa was covered again, not that someone got better? — Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons a… · tree and pragmatics description: Which shows the sofa was covered again, not that someone got better? Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★★★ · Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens Which shows the sofa was covered again, not that someone got better? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** someone · **What happens:** show, cover, not get · **To what, where:** sofa · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens» 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/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens:t11:1 # text = Which shows the sofa was covered again, not that someone got better? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 2 nsubj _ _ 2 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sofa sofa NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ _ 12 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **cover** | past · passive | | the sofa | | | again | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | | 3 | **not** **get** | past | someone | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} recovered ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens:t11:o1:1 # text = recovered 1 recovered recover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recover** | participle | | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} re: covered ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens:t11:o2:1 # text = re: covered 1 re re VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 3 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **re** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cover** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} re-covered ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens:t11:o3:1 # text = re-covered 1 re-covered re-covered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} re covered ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens:t11:o4:1 # text = re covered 1 re re VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **re** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cover** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | **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. 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