Exam question 2 · Homophones and near-homophones

Ascertain the correct form to be employed in the sentence «___ going to the park», wherein the meaning is «they are».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, meaning · What happens: ascertain, employ, go, be · To what, where: correct form, sentence, park · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 11 «Homophones and near-homophones» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 form	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 form	amod
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 employed	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 employed	aux:pass
7	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 form	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sentence	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sentence	det
10	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employed	obl
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 _	punct
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 employed	punct
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ascertain	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 park	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 park	det
18	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 going	obl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 are	punct
21	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	27 are	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 meaning	det
23	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 are	nsubj:outer
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 are	cop
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 are	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 are	nsubj
27	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	advcl
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 are	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the correct form			tree rules
2	employ	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here	the correct form not said here	the sentence		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»
3	go in a quote	gerund			the park		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to park=Initial_Location
4	is in a quote	present	the meaning			be, wherein property	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

There

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	root	root

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

Option 2

They'are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They'are	they'are	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They're

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 're	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 4

Their

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	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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