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Test 6 · Sounds and letters: how phonics starts

Kai in Auckland: «Mum says the th in thin is buzzy, sweet as». Spot the slip.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kai, th, you · What happens: say, be, spot · To what, where: slip · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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: Kai in Auckland: «Mum says the th in thin is buzzy, sweet as».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Auckland	case
3	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kai	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
6	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 th	det
9	th	th	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buzzy	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 thin	case
11	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 th	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 buzzy	cop
13	buzzy	buzzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 says	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sweet	punct
15	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 buzzy	ccomp
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 »	mark
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 sweet	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Kai in Auckland						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	the th in thin					buzzy property	tree rules

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: Spot the slip.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spot	spot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slip	det
3	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spot	obj
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Spot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	imperative	you not said here	the slip					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme slip=Destination

The options

Option 1

No slip, thin is the buzzy th

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 slip	det
2	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 th	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 slip	punct
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 slip	amod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 th	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 th	det
7	buzzy	buzzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 th	amod
8	th	th	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	no slip	the buzzy th					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Thin is the quiet th; this is the buzzy one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thin	Thin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 th	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 th	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 th	det
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 th	amod
5	th	th	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 one	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 one	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	buzzy	buzzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 th	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Thin	the quiet th					tree rules
2	is a	present	this	the buzzy one					tree rules

Option 3

Thin has no th sound at all, only t

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 sound	det
4	th	th	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sound	compound
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sound	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 t	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 t	advmod
10	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sound	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Thin	no th sound and t		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Th always makes exactly one sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Th	th	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 makes	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sound	nummod
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Th	one sound				always property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product

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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