Test 8 · Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)
«learn possession tonight», no cap, it's got loads of s's. How many s's, and how are they grouped?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cap · What happens: learn, get, group · To what, where: cap, loads, many
This is test 8 of lesson 13 «Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)» 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: «learn possession tonight», no cap, it's got loads of s's.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 learn | punct |
| 2 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tonight | compound |
| 4 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 learn | obj |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 learn | punct |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cap | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 cap | det |
| 8 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 learn | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | aux |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 learn | conj |
| 13 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 got | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 s | case |
| 15 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loads | nmod |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 s | case |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 learn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn in a quote | imperative | you not said here | no cap | tonight | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | get | present · passive | cap | loads of s | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Stimulus |
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: How many s's, and how are they grouped?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grouped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 many | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 s | case |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grouped | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grouped | cc |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 grouped | advmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 grouped | aux:pass |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 grouped | nsubj |
| 10 | grouped | group | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 grouped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | group | present · passive | many | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Two: one pair
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 | _ | 4 pair | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pair | nummod |
| 4 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Two | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Five: sss at the start and ss at the end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 sss | punct |
| 3 | sss | sss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Five | appos |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 start | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 start | det |
| 6 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sss | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ss | cc |
| 8 | ss | ss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 start | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sss | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Three: s, ss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 s | punct |
| 3 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Three | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ss | punct |
| 5 | ss | ss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 s | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Four: two pairs, ss and ss
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 | _ | 4 pairs | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pairs | nummod |
| 4 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Four | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ss | punct |
| 6 | ss | ss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pairs | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ss | cc |
| 8 | ss | ss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ss | conj |
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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