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Test 6 · How to learn spellings that stick

«rainbow colours on every letter, so pretty, I'll remember». What's better?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: remember, be

This is test 6 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: «rainbow colours on every letter, so pretty, I'll remember».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 colours	punct
2	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colours	compound
3	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 letter	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 letter	det
6	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colours	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 remember	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 remember	advmod
9	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	13 remember	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 remember	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 remember	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 remember	aux
13	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 colours	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 remember	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 colours	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember in a quote	future	I					pretty property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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's better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Use glitter on every word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	glitter	glitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 word	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	glitter		every word			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glitter=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Colour just the tricky bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 bit	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bit	det
4	tricky	tricky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bit	amod
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Colour	nmod

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

Option 3

Use even more colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 more	advmod
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 colours	amod
4	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	more colours					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

Option 4

Write in black only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 black	case
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Write	obl
4	only	only	ADV	_	1 Write	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	imperative	you not said here			black			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in black=Destination

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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