Test 10 · ★ · i before e, silent letters and other famous traps

★★★ Which word follows the FULL rhyme, «i before e except after c, when the sound is /ee/»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, i, sound · What happens: follow, e, be · To what, where: FULL rhyme, ee

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 10 «i before e, silent letters and other famous traps» 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	6 follows	nsubj
4	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follows	nsubj
6	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rhyme	det
8	FULL	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rhyme	amod
9	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follows	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 e	punct
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 e	punct
12	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 e	nsubj
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 e	advmod
14	e	e	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 follows	conj
15	except	except	ADP	_	17 c	case
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 c	case
17	c	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 e	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ee	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 ee	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sound	det
21	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ee	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 ee	cop
23	/	/	PUNCT	_	22 is	punct
24	ee	ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 e	appos
25	/	/	SYM	_	24 ee	punct
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 ee	punct
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 follows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	present	★ ★ ★	the FULL rhyme		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Theme
2	e in a quote	present	i		except c	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	the sound	ee		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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

weird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

their, because it has no c

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 has	nmod:poss
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 has	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 c	det
7	c	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	no c					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

receipt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	receipt	receipt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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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