Test 12 · Sounds and letters: how phonics starts

★★★ Tom says: «light has five letters, so it has five sounds». How many sounds does «light» really have?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, light, many sounds · What happens: say, have · To what, where: five letters, five sounds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 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

Sentence 1: ★★★ Tom says: «light has five letters, so it has five sounds».

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 sounds does «light» really have?

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

5: l, i, g, h, t

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

Option 2

4: l, i, gh, t

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

3: l, igh, t

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

Option 4

2: li, ght

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

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