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Test 8 · ★ · Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-

«bicycle's got two wheels, so a tricycle must have... four?» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bicycle, tricycle · What happens: get, have, be · To what, where: two wheels, four

This is test 8 · ★ 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: «bicycle's got two wheels, so a tricycle must have... four?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
2	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 wheels	nummod
6	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 have	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tricycle	det
10	tricycle	tricycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 got	parataxis
13	...	...	PUNCT	_	14 four	punct
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 have	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	bicycle	two wheels					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wheel=Stimulus
2	have in a quote	must	a tricycle	four					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Patient

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 is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Two, like a bicycle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bicycle	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 bicycle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bicycle	det
5	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Two	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

One, because tri- means only one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 means	mark
4	tri	tri	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tri	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 One	parataxis
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 one	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 means	obj

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

Option 3

Four, because tri- means twice two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 means	mark
4	tri	tri	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tri	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Four	parataxis
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 two	advmod
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Four	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Three, because tri- means three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 means	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 means	mark
4	tri	tri	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tri	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 means	obj

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