Exam question 2 · Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)

Ascertain the correct spelling of the word signifying «to set or keep apart».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, word · What happens: ascertain, signify, set, keep, spell · To what, where: correct spelling, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 13 «Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spelling	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spelling	amod
4	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 word	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spelling	nmod
8	signifying	signify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 word	acl
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 set	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 set	mark
11	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 signifying	ccomp
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 keep	cc
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 set	conj
14	apart	apart	ADV	_	13 keep	advmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 set	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the correct spelling of the word		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Topic
2	signify	gerund	the word not said here			tree rules
3	set in a quote	to-infinitive	the word not said here			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	keep in a quote	infinitive	the word not said here		apart property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	spell			the word		nom spelling «communication transitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

separate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	separate	separate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	separate	imperative	you not said here						vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

seperete

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seperete	seperete	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

separete

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	separete	separete	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

seperate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seperate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos Typo=Yes	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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