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Test 9 · Homophones and near-homophones

«whose going to the shop? nan's car's outside». What's the slip?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: slip · What happens: go, be · To what, where: shop

This is test 9 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: «whose going to the shop? nan's car's outside».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct
2	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	3 going	nmod:poss
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 shop	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shop	det
6	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct
8	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 car	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 nan	case
10	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 outside	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 car	case
12	outside	outside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 going	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	gerund				the shop			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shop=Initial_Location

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's the slip?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 slip	det
4	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the slip						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It should be «whos», no apostrophe

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	5 whos	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 whos	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 whos	cop
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 whos	punct
5	whos	who	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 whos	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 apostrophe	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 apostrophe	det
9	apostrophe	apostrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whos	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	should	It	whos and no apostrophe					tree rules

Option 2

Nothing, «whose» means «who is»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 means	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 whose	punct
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 means	nsubj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 whose	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 is	nsubj
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	ccomp
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Nothing						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be in a quote	present							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It should be «hoose», the Scots way

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	5 hoose	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hoose	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 hoose	cop
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 hoose	punct
5	hoose	hoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 hoose	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Scots	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Scots	det
9	Scots	Scot	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 hoose	appos
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Scots	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	should	It	hoose					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It should be «who's», meaning «who is»

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	9 meaning	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 meaning	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 meaning	aux
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 who	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 meaning	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 who	cop
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 who	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 meaning	punct
9	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 is	nsubj
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 meaning	ccomp
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present							tree rules
2	mean	should · progressive	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be in a quote	present							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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