Test 12 · ★ · i before e, silent letters and other famous traps
★★★ Which group shares one silent-letter pattern?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★ · What happens: share · To what, where: one letter pattern
This is test 12 · ★ 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 shares | nsubj |
| 4 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 5 group | det |
| 5 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | appos |
| 6 | shares | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pattern | nummod |
| 8 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 letter | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 silent | punct |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pattern | compound |
| 11 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shares | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 shares | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | ★ ★ ★ | one letter pattern | 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 · ✓ the right answer
lamb, climb, comb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 climb | punct |
| 3 | climb | climb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 lamb | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 comb | punct |
| 5 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 lamb | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
knife, write, gnome
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 write | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 knife | punct |
| 3 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gnome | punct |
| 5 | gnome | gnome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 write | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | imperative | you not said here | gnome | knife vocative | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gnome=Theme |
Option 3
eight, weigh, weird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 weigh | nummod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 eight | punct |
| 3 | weigh | weigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weird | compound |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 weigh | punct |
| 5 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
island, Wednesday, rhythm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Wednesday | punct |
| 3 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 island | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rhythm | punct |
| 5 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 island | conj |
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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