Test 12 · Homophones and near-homophones
★★★ «The noise had a big ___ on the dogs; it ___ them all night.» Which pair fits?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, pair · What happens: have, fit · To what, where: a
This is test 12 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ «The noise had a big ___ on the dogs; it ___ them all night.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 noise | det |
| 6 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 a | amod |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 big | punct |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 big | punct |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 big | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 dogs | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dogs | det |
| 15 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 _ | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 them | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 them | nsubj |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 them | punct |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 them | punct |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 them | punct |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | obl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 night | det |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 them | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | ★ | a | dogs = dog obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Patient |
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 pair fits?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 pair | det |
| 2 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fits | nsubj |
| 3 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | which pair | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
effect, affected
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 affected | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 effect | punct |
| 3 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
effect, effected
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 effected | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 effect | punct |
| 3 | effected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
affect, effected
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | affect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 effected | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 affect | punct |
| 3 | effected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
affect, affected
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | affect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 affected | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 affect | punct |
| 3 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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