--- title: Pursuant to the conventions of careful written English, identify the… — Nouns: the names of things, people, pl… · tree and pragmatics description: Pursuant to the conventions of careful written English, identify the correctly formulated expression. Exam question 3 of lesson 2 «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/e3/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / [Nouns: the names of things, people, pl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas Pursuant to the conventions of careful written English, identify the correctly formulated expression. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** write, identify, formulate · **To what, where:** formulated expression This is exam question 3 of lesson 2 «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» of the language 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/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas:e3:1 # text = Pursuant to the conventions of careful written English, identify the correctly formulated expression. 1 Pursuant pursuant ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 conventions convention NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 correctly correctly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 formulated formulate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 expression expression NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the formulated expression | | | | pursuant *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme | | 3 | **formulate** | participle | | | | | | correctly *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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} Fewer sweets and less sugar ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas:e3:o1:1 # text = Fewer sweets and less sugar 1 Fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Fewer sugar and fewer sweets ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas:e3:o2:1 # text = Fewer sugar and fewer sweets 1 Fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Less sweets and fewer sugar ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas:e3:o3:1 # text = Less sweets and fewer sugar 1 Less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Less sweets and less sugars ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas:e3:o4:1 # text = Less sweets and less sugars 1 Less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 sugars sugar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` 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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