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title: Which ordering signposts belong together in a non-fiction text? — Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a tex… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which ordering signposts belong together in a non-fiction text? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 37 «Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together» 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 right.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together

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Which ordering signposts belong together in a non-fiction text?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ordering signposts · **What happens:** belong · **To what, where:** non-fiction text

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 37 «Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together» 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/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together:t11:1
# text = Which ordering signposts belong together in a non-fiction text?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	ordering	ordering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	signposts	signpost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	non-fiction	non-fiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present | ordering signposts |  |  | a non-fiction text |  | together *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Once, upon, time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together:t11:o1:1
# text = Once, upon, time
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Suddenly, crash, bang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together:t11:o2:1
# text = Suddenly, crash, bang
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Firstly, secondly, finally

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together:t11:o3:1
# text = Firstly, secondly, finally
1	Firstly	firstly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	secondly	secondly	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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However, cats, purr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together:t11:o4:1
# text = However, cats, purr
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	purr	purr	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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