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title: A story ends: "…and the 'monster' in the attic was Grandad's old rad… — Putting it together: reading and writi… · tree and pragmatics
description: A story ends: "…and the 'monster' in the attic was Grandad's old radio." What kind of ending is this? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 54 «Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer

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A story ends: "…and the 'monster' in the attic was Grandad's old radio." What kind of ending is this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** story, monster, this · **What happens:** end, be · **To what, where:** old radio, kind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 54 «Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer» 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/54-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A story ends: "…and the 'monster' in the attic was Grandad's old radio."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:54-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer:t8:1
# text = A story ends: "…and the 'monster' in the attic was Grandad's old radio."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	…	…	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	attic	attic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | present | a story |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the monster in the attic | Grandad's old radio |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What kind of ending is this?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:54-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer:t8:2
# text = What kind of ending is this?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this | what kind |  |  |  | of ending | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A twist

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:54-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer:t8:o1:1
# text = A twist
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	twist	twist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A simile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:54-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer:t8:o2:1
# text = A simile
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	simile	simile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A cliché

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:54-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer:t8:o3:1
# text = A cliché
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cliché	cliché	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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A hook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:54-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer:t8:o4:1
# text = A hook
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hook	hook	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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