--- title: ★★★ In the middle of a sentence, Jo writes «mydoG». How many fixes d… — Handwriting: holding the pencil and jo… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ In the middle of a sentence, Jo writes «mydoG». How many fixes does it need? Test 12 of lesson 5 «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Handwriting: holding the pencil and jo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/) / t12 # Test 12 · Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up ★★★ In the middle of a sentence, Jo writes «mydoG». How many fixes does it need? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jo, many fixes · **What happens:** write, need · **To what, where:** mydoG This is test 12 of lesson 5 «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» 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/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/#t12). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ In the middle of a sentence, Jo writes «mydoG». ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up:t12:1 # text = ★★★ In the middle of a sentence, Jo writes «mydoG». 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 In in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 Jo Jo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 mydoG mydog NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | present | Jo | mydoG | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mydog=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* How many fixes does it need? ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up:t12:2 # text = How many fixes does it need? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 fixes fix NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present · do-support | many fixes | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 4 ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up:t12:o1:1 # text = 4 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 1 ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up:t12:o2:1 # text = 1 1 1 1 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up:t12:o3:1 # text = 2 1 2 2 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up:t12:o4:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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