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Test 8 · ★ · i before e, silent letters and other famous traps

A cartoon knight shouts «My name starts with N!». What should the cartoon teach?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon knight, name, My · What happens: shout, start, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: A cartoon knight shouts «My name starts with N!».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 knight	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knight	compound
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouts	nsubj
4	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 starts	punct
6	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 name	nmod:poss
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 starts	nsubj
8	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shouts	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 N	case
10	N	N	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 starts	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 N	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 starts	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shouts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	a cartoon knight						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	start in a quote	present	My name					with N	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with n=Subeventuality
3	name in a quote		My						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 should the cartoon teach?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 What	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teach	det
4	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teach	compound
5	teach	teach	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

«Knight» starts with a silent k

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Knight	punct
2	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starts	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Knight	punct
4	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 k	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 k	det
7	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 k	amod
8	k	k	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	Knight					with a silent k	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with k=Subeventuality

Option 2

The knight is right, it's «Night»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knight	det
2	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 right	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Night	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 Night	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Night	cop
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 Night	punct
9	Night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 right	parataxis
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 Night	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the knight					right property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	it	Night					tree rules

Option 3

«Knight» starts with a silent g

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Knight	punct
2	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starts	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Knight	punct
4	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 g	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 g	det
7	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 g	amod
8	g	G	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	Knight					with a silent g	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with g=Subeventuality

Option 4

Knights have no spelling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 spelling	det
4	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj

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

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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