Test 11 · Homophones and near-homophones

★★★ Which sentence is spelled correctly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: spell · To what, where: ★ ★ ★

This is test 11 of lesson 11 «Homophones and near-homophones» 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	7 spelled	nsubj:pass
4	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 sentence	det
5	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	appos
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spelled	aux:pass
7	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	7 spelled	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 spelled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell	present · passive		★ ★ ★				correctly property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=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.

The options

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

It's raining, so the cat licked its paws

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 raining	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 raining	aux
3	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 licked	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 licked	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 licked	nsubj
8	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 raining	conj
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 paws	nmod:poss
10	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 licked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	present · progressive	It						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	lick	past	the cat	cat's paws					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent paw=Source

Option 2

It's raining, so the cat licked it's paws

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 raining	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 raining	aux
3	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 licked	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 licked	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 licked	nsubj
8	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 raining	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 paws	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 paws	cop
11	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 licked	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	rain	present · progressive	It		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	lick	past	the cat		vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	cat	paws	tree rules

Option 3

Its raining, so the cat licked its paws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 raining	nsubj
2	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 licked	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 licked	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 licked	nsubj
7	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raining	conj
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 paws	nmod:poss
9	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 licked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	gerund	Its = it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	lick	past	the cat	cat's paws					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent paw=Source

Option 4

Its raining, so the cat licked it's paws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 raining	nsubj
2	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 licked	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 licked	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 licked	nsubj
7	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raining	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 paws	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 paws	cop
10	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 licked	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	rain	gerund	Its = it		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	lick	past	the cat		vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	cat	paws	tree rules

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