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title: Which is the best headline for the fire drill report? — Writing to inform, instruct and persuade · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is the best headline for the fire drill report? Test 11 · ★★ 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 right.
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Writing to inform, instruct and persuade

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Which is the best headline for the fire drill report?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** best headline

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This is test 11 · ★★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t11:1
# text = Which is the best headline for the fire drill report?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	headline	headline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	drill	drill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the best headline |  |  |  | for the drill report | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Pupils Out in Two Minutes as Alarm Sounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t11:o1:1
# text = Pupils Out in Two Minutes as Alarm Sounds
1	Pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	Out	out	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	Minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Alarm	Alarm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Sounds	Sound	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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My Diary: Tuesday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t11:o2:1
# text = My Diary: Tuesday
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Diary	Diary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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How to Make a Fire Alarm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t11:o3:1
# text = How to Make a Fire Alarm
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Alarm	Alarm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a Fire Alarm |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset alarm=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It Was a Day at School and Things Happened

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t11:o4:1
# text = It Was a Day at School and Things Happened
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	School	School	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Things	Thing	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	Happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | a Day |  | School and Things |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | past | a Day |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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