Test 4 · ★ · Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-

What would happen if we wrote «misspell» with one s?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: happen, write, misspell

This is test 4 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 wrote	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wrote	nsubj
6	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 misspell	punct
8	misspell	misspell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wrote	xcomp
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 misspell	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 s	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 s	nummod
12	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 misspell	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	write a condition, not said to happen	past	we		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	misspell in a quote	infinitive	we not said here	with one s	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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

Nothing, «mispell» is also correct

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 correct	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mispell	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 mispell	punct
4	mispell	mispell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	appos
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 mispell	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 correct	cop
7	also	also	ADV	_	8 correct	advmod
8	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					correct property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

We'd misspell «misspell», because both s's belong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 misspell	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 misspell	aux
3	misspell	misspell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 misspell	punct
5	misspell	misspell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 misspell	conj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 misspell	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 belong	punct
8	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	12 belong	case
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 s	det
10	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 belong	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 s	case
12	belong	belong	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 misspell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	misspell	would	We					because both s's belong	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	misspell in a quote	infinitive	We not said here						vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would mean «not spell»

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	3 mean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 spell	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 spell	advmod
6	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mean	ccomp
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 spell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not spell in a quote	infinitive							vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would mean «spell again»

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	3 mean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 spell	punct
5	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mean	xcomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 spell	advmod
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 spell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spell not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive					again		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent

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