Test 10 · How to learn spellings that stick
★★★ Lucas learns 5 new words a night, Monday to Thursday, and on Friday reviews them all. How many words does he review on Friday?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, many words · What happens: learn, review · To what, where: 5 new words, words
This is test 10 of lesson 15 «How to learn spellings that stick» 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: ★★★ Lucas learns 5 new words a night, Monday to Thursday, and on Friday reviews them all.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 learns | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Lucas | case |
| 4 | Lucas | Lucas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | learns | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 words | nummod |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 learns | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 words | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Monday | punct |
| 12 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 words | appos |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Thursday | case |
| 14 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 learns | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reviews | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 reviews | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 Friday | case |
| 18 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 reviews | obl |
| 19 | reviews | review | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 learns | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reviews | obj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 learns | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present | ★ ★ Lucas | 5 new words a night | thursday | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 2 | review | present | ★ ★ Lucas not said here | words = word | friday | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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 words does he review on Friday?
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 | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 review | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 review | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 review | nsubj |
| 6 | review | review | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Friday | case |
| 8 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 review | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 review | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | review | present · do-support | many words | friday | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
25
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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