--- title: ★★★ Choose the best punctuation: "We visited Leeds, England ___ Cork… — Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons a… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Choose the best punctuation: "We visited Leeds, England ___ Cork, Ireland ___ and Perth, Australia." Test 8 · ★★★ 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 op --- [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/t8/) [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/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★★★ · Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens ★★★ Choose the best punctuation: "We visited Leeds, England \_\_\_ Cork, Ireland \_\_\_ and Perth, Australia." **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ ★ ★, We · **What happens:** choose, visit · **To what, where:** best punctuation, Leeds · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 · ★★★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens:t8:1 # text = ★★★ Choose the best punctuation: "We visited Leeds, England ___ Cork, Ireland ___ and Perth, Australia." 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 Choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 punctuation punctuation NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 visited visit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Cork cork NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 21 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 11 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 Perth Perth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | infinitive | ★ ★ ★ | the best punctuation | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **visit** *in a quote* | past | We | Leeds and England | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leeds=Co-Agent | 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} Hyphens in both gaps ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens:t8:o1:1 # text = Hyphens in both gaps 1 Hyphens hyphen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Commas in both gaps ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens:t8:o2:1 # text = Commas in both gaps 1 Commas comma NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Colons in both gaps ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens:t8:o3:1 # text = Colons in both gaps 1 Colons colon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Semicolons in both gaps ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens:t8:o4:1 # text = Semicolons in both gaps 1 Semicolons semicolon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ ``` 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. 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