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Test 4 · Homophones and near-homophones

«ugh, I learned the homophone list and still got «I can sea the see» wrong». What would help?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: I · What happens: learn, get, sea, help · To what, where: homophone list, see

This is test 4 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: «ugh, I learned the homophone list and still got «I can sea the see» wrong».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 learned	punct
2	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	5 learned	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ugh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 learned	nsubj
5	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 list	det
7	homophone	homophone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 list	compound
8	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learned	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 got	cc
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 learned	conj
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 sea	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sea	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 sea	aux
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 see	det
17	see	see	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
19	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 got	xcomp
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 learned	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 learned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn in a quote	past	I	the homophone list					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Topic
2	get in a quote	past	I not said here	the see			still	wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer see=Stimulus
3	sea	can	I						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.

Sentence 2: What would help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 help	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Only ever use one of each pair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 use	advmod
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 use	advmod
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 use	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 pair	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 pair	det
7	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	one of each pair			ever		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Learn homophones in sentences, like «I see the sea»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	homophones	homophone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Learn	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 sentences	case
4	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Learn	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 see	mark
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
9	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Learn	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	imperative	you not said here	homophones		sentences			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homophone=Topic
2	see in a quote	present	I	the sea					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sea=Stimulus

Option 3

Learn the list again, louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 list	det
3	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Learn	obj
4	again	again	ADV	_	1 Learn	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 louder	punct
6	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Learn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	imperative	you not said here	the list			again		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Topic

Option 4

Skip any sentence with homophones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skip	skip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 sentence	det
3	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Skip	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 homophones	case
5	homophones	homophone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Skip	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	imperative	you not said here	any sentence				with homophones	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Agent

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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