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Test 9 · ★ · i before e, silent letters and other famous traps

Mark's friend spells «friend» as «freind». Which memory trick fixes it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, memory trick · What happens: spell, fix · To what, where: friend

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Mark's friend spells «friend» as «freind».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 friend	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mark	case
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spells	nsubj
4	spells	spell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 friend	punct
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spells	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 friend	punct
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 freind	case
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 freind	punct
10	freind	freind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spells	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 freind	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell	present	Mark's friend	friend				as freind	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme

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: Which memory trick fixes it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 memory	det
2	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trick	compound
3	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fixes	nsubj
4	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fixes	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fixes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	present	memory trick	friend					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

A friend to the end: the word ends in «end»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ends	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 end	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 end	det
5	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 friend	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 ends	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ends	nsubj
9	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 end	punct
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ends	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 ends	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	a friend to the end				in end		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Write it as it sounds: frend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Write	obj
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 sounds	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sounds	nsubj
5	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Write	advcl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 frend	punct
7	frend	frend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Write	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	imperative	you not said here	it				frend obl	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	sound	present	it						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Friends eat ice: f-r-e-i

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 e	punct
5	f	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	9 e	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 f	punct
7	r	r	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 e	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 r	punct
9	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 eat	punct
11	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 eat	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Friends	ice				for r e	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Patient

Option 4

i before e except after c

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 e	nsubj
2	before	before	ADV	_	3 e	advmod
3	e	e	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	except	except	ADP	_	6 c	case
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 c	case
6	c	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 e	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	e	present	i					except c; before 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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