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# Exam question 3 · Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together

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Select the response consistent with established conventions concerning cohesion.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, established conventions · **What happens:** select, establish, concern · **To what, where:** response, cohesion

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 37 «Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together:e3:1
# text = Select the response consistent with established conventions concerning cohesion.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	conventions	convention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	cohesion	cohesion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | established conventions *not said here* | cohesion |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cohesion=Experiencer |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Cohesion is achieved solely by the use of full stops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together:e3:o1:1
# text = Cohesion is achieved solely by the use of full stops
1	Cohesion	cohesion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	achieved	achieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod	_	_
10	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **achieve** | present · passive | the use of full | Cohesion |  |  |  | solely *property* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stop** | present | the use of full *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cohesion requires every sentence to begin with "then"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together:e3:o2:1
# text = Cohesion requires every sentence to begin with "then"
1	Cohesion	cohesion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	requires	require	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | present | Cohesion | every sentence |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sentence=Precondition |
| 2 | **begin** | to-infinitive | Cohesion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with then=Subeventuality |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Pronouns, adverbials and repeated key words link a text together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together:e3:o3:1
# text = Pronouns, adverbials and repeated key words link a text together
1	Pronouns	pronoun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	adverbials	adverbial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	link	link	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **link** | present | Pronouns and adverbials and repeated key words | a text |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent text=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cohesion is relevant only to poetry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together:e3:o4:1
# text = Cohesion is relevant only to poetry
1	Cohesion	cohesion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	relevant	relevant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Cohesion |  |  |  |  | to poetry; relevant *property* | tree rules |

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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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