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Test 1 · ★ · Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-

«I'm fixin' to misdo my homework cos I messed up». What should he say, and why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, he · What happens: fixin, misdo, mess up, say · To what, where: homework · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 12 «Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-» 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: «I'm fixin' to misdo my homework cos I messed up».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 fixin	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fixin	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fixin	aux
4	fixin	fixin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 fixin	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 misdo	mark
7	misdo	misdo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fixin	xcomp
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 homework	nmod:poss
9	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 misdo	obj
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	12 messed	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 messed	nsubj
12	messed	mess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 misdo	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 messed	compound:prt
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 fixin	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fixin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fixin in a quote	present · progressive	I						tree rules
2	misdo in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	my homework					tree rules
3	mess up in a quote	past	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 should he say, and why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 why	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 why	cc
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 say	parataxis
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

«Predo», because pre- means again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Predo	punct
2	Predo	Predo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 means	parataxis
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Predo	punct
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 means	mark
6	pre	pre	X	_	8 means	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 pre	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	pre				again		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

Option 2

«Misdo», because mis- means again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Misdo	punct
2	Misdo	Misdo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 means	parataxis
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Misdo	punct
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 means	mark
6	mis	mis	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 mis	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	mis				again		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

«Redo», because re- means again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Redo	punct
2	Redo	redo	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 means	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Redo	punct
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 means	mark
6	re	re	ADP	_	5 because	fixed
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 re	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	redo in a quote	infinitive							tree rules
2	mean	present					again		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

«Undo», because un- means again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Undo	punct
2	Undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 means	ccomp
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Undo	punct
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 means	mark
6	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 un	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undo in a quote	infinitive							vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	un				again		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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