Test 11 · Sounds and letters: how phonics starts

★★★ Which made-up word could a child read with ONLY the first six sounds, s, a, t, p, i, n?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★ · What happens: make up, read · To what, where: word, child

This is test 11 of lesson 1 «Sounds and letters: how phonics starts» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ★	acl:relcl
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 made	compound:prt
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 made	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 could	nsubj
12	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 child	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	18 sounds	case
14	ONLY	only	ADV	_	18 sounds	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sounds	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 sounds	amod
17	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 sounds	nummod
18	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 read	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 s	punct
20	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sounds	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 t	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 t	det
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 t	punct
24	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sounds	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 p	punct
26	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 t	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 i	punct
28	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ★	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 n	punct
30	n	n	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	3 ★	conj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	★ ★ ★ and n	word					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Pivot
2	read	participle		a child not said here				with the first six sounds and s and a t and p	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: 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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

«zib»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 zib	punct
2	zib	zib	X	_	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 zib	punct

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

Option 2

«mot»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 mot	punct
2	mot	mot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 mot	punct

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

«pas»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 pas	punct
2	pas	pa	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 pas	punct

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

Option 4

«shap»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 shap	punct
2	shap	shap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 shap	punct

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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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