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description: A Gen Z cousin texts "the vibe — immaculate." Which mark is she using to add drama? Test 6 · ★★★ 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 w
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# Test 6 · ★★★ · Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens

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A Gen Z cousin texts "the vibe — immaculate." Which mark is she using to add drama?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Z cousin, vibe, mark · **What happens:** text, immaculate, use, add · **To what, where:** vibe, drama

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This is test 6 · ★★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A Gen Z cousin texts "the vibe — immaculate."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens:t6:1
# text = A Gen Z cousin texts "the vibe — immaculate."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Z	z	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	texts	text	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	vibe	vibe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	immaculate	immaculate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **text** | present | a Z cousin | the vibe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **immaculate** *in a quote* | infinitive | the vibe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:* Which mark is she using to add drama?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens:t6:2
# text = Which mark is she using to add drama?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	drama	drama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · progressive | which mark |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | which mark *not said here* | drama |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drama=Patient |

## The options {#options}

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

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A dash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens:t6:o1:1
# text = A dash
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dash	dash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A semicolon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens:t6:o2:1
# text = A semicolon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	semicolon	semicolon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A colon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens:t6:o3:1
# text = A colon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	colon	colon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A hyphen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens:t6:o4:1
# text = A hyphen
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hyphen	hyphen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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