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# Test 10 · ★★ · Writing to inform, instruct and persuade

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Your sister, sarky: "Your 'balanced' argument has six reasons for and zero against. Very fair." What is wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** six reasons

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 44 «Writing to inform, instruct and persuade» 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/44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your sister, sarky: "Your 'balanced' argument has six reasons for and zero against.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t10:1
# text = Your sister, sarky: "Your 'balanced' argument has six reasons for and zero against.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sarky	sarky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	'	'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	balanced	balanced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	zero	zero	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
18	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Your sister and balanced argument | six reasons |  |  |  | for zero | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |

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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:* Very fair."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t10:2
# text = Very fair."
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 3:* What is wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t10:3
# text = What is wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It has too many paragraphs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t10:o1:1
# text = It has too many paragraphs
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	paragraphs	paragraph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It | many paragraphs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paragraph=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It has a headline

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t10:o2:1
# text = It has a headline
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	headline	headline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It | a headline |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headline=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It uses the past tense

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t10:o3:1
# text = It uses the past tense
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tense	tense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | It | the past tense |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tense=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It gives only one side

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t10:o4:1
# text = It gives only one side
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | It | one side |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme |

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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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