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title: Ascertain the five interrogatives customarily addressed in a newspap… — Writing to inform, instruct and persuade · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the five interrogatives customarily addressed in a newspaper report. Exam question 4 of lesson 44 «Writing to inform, instruct and persuade» 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.
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# Exam question 4 · Writing to inform, instruct and persuade

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Ascertain the five interrogatives customarily addressed in a newspaper report.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, address · **To what, where:** five interrogatives, newspaper report

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 44 «Writing to inform, instruct and persuade» 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/44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the five interrogatives customarily addressed in a newspaper report.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	interrogatives	interrogative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	customarily	customarily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	addressed	address	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the five interrogatives |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interrogative=Topic |
| 2 | **address** | participle |  | the five interrogatives *not said here* |  | a newspaper report |  | customarily *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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If, but, and, or and so

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:e4:o1:1
# text = If, but, and, or and so
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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How, how much, how many, how far and how long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:e4:o2:1
# text = How, how much, how many, how far and how long
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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Who, what, where, when and why

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:e4:o3:1
# text = Who, what, where, when and why
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Which, whose, whom, whither and whence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:e4:o4:1
# text = Which, whose, whom, whither and whence
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	conj	_	_
```

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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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