Exam question 1 · Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by idea)

Ascertain the correct spelling of the word signifying «required» or «indispensable».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, word · What happens: ascertain, signify, require, spell · To what, where: correct spelling, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 14 «Words to know, Years 5–6 (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	_	10 required	punct
10	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 signifying	parataxis
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 required	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 indispensable	cc
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 indispensable	punct
14	indispensable	indispensable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 required	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 indispensable	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	require in a quote	participle			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	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

neccessary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	neccessary	neccessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

necessary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

necesary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	necesary	necesary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

neccesary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	neccesary	neccesary	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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