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Test 7 · Sounds and letters: how phonics starts

Auntie: «if Amira keeps chattin' Arabic at home she'll never read English proper». What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Auntie, Amira · What happens: keep, not read, be · To what, where: chattin, English, home

This is test 7 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: Auntie: «if Amira keeps chattin' Arabic at home she'll never read English proper».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Auntie	auntie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeps	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 keeps	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 keeps	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 keeps	mark
5	Amira	Amira	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 keeps	nsubj
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	chattin	chattin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeps	obj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 keeps	punct
9	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 keeps	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 home	case
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 read	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 read	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 read	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 read	advmod
15	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 keeps	parataxis
16	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 read	obj
17	proper	properly	ADV	_	15 read	advmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 read	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	Auntie	chattin					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent chattin=Theme arabic=Attribute
2	not read in a quote	future	Amira	English		home		properly property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent english=Theme at home=Value

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: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

She's right, children can only learn one language

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 learn	punct
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 learn	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 learn	aux
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 learn	advmod
8	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 right	conj
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 language	nummod
10	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	learn	can	children	one language					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Speaking a home language does not hold back English reading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 hold	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 language	det
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 language	compound
4	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Speaking	obj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hold	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hold	advmod
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	back	back	ADP	_	7 hold	compound:prt
9	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 reading	amod
10	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund		a home language					tree rules
2	not hold back	present · do-support	Speaking	English reading					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reading=Theme

Option 3

Amira will read English but never be able to spell it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Amira	Amira	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 read	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 read	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 able	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 able	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	cop
8	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 read	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 spell	mark
10	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	future	Amira	English					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Topic
2	not is	infinitive	Amira not said here					able property	tree rules
3	spell	to-infinitive	Amira not said here	it					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Amira must stop speaking Arabic before she reads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Amira	Amira	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stop	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Arabic	amod
5	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 reads	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reads	nsubj
8	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	must	Amira	speaking Arabic					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector arabic=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	gerund							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	read	present	Amira						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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