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Test 2 · ★ · i before e, silent letters and other famous traps

«ceiling, that's c-i-e, cos i before e innit». Put her right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, i, you · What happens: be, e, put · To what, where: c i e, innit, her

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: «ceiling, that's c-i-e, cos i before e innit».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 ceiling	punct
2	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 e	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 e	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 e	cop
6	c	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 e	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 c	punct
8	i	i	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 e	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 e	punct
10	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ceiling	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 i	punct
12	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	13 i	case
13	i	i	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 e	conj
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 e	mark
15	e	e	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 i	acl
16	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 e	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 e	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ceiling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that	c i e and i					tree rules
2	e in a quote	gerund	i not said here	innit					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: Put her right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		her = she			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Both orders are fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 orders	det
2	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fine	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

After c it's ei: c-e-i-l-i-n-g

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	2 c	case
2	c	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 g	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ei	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ei	cop
5	ei	EI	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 c	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 e	punct
7	c	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 e	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 c	punct
9	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 g	nsubj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 e	punct
11	i	i	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 e	conj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 i	punct
13	l	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 g	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 l	punct
15	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 g	nsubj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 n	punct
17	n	n	ADV	_	19 g	advmod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 n	punct
19	g	G	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	c	ei					tree rules

Option 3

It's spelled «seeling»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spelled	nsubj:pass
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spelled	aux:pass
3	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 seeling	punct
5	seeling	seel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spelled	advcl
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 seeling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell	present · passive		It					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme
2	seel in a quote	gerund							tree rules

Option 4

She's right, c-i-e-l-i-n-g

The tree, 10 words

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	_	3 right	punct
5	c	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 i	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 c	punct
7	i	i	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 e	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 i	punct
9	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 l	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 e	punct
11	l	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 g	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 i	punct
13	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 l	appos
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 i	punct
15	n	n	X	_	11 l	dep
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 l	punct
17	g	G	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	conj

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

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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