Test 10 · ★ · Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-
★★★ Which word has a double letter ONLY because a prefix meets the root?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, prefix · What happens: have, meet · To what, where: double letter, root
This is test 10 · ★ 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
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 | 6 has | nsubj |
| 4 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 letter | det |
| 8 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 letter | amod |
| 9 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 10 | ONLY | only | ADV | _ | 14 meets | advmod |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 meets | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 prefix | det |
| 13 | prefix | prefix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meets | nsubj |
| 14 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 has | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 root | det |
| 16 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meets | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | ★ ★ ★ | a double letter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | meet | present | a prefix | the root | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Co-Agent |
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
little
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
unnatural
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unnatural | unnatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
rabbit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
slippery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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