Test 10 · Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check
★★★ How many sounds are there in «chips»? Careful!
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: be · To what, where: chips
This is test 10 of lesson 2 «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» 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: ★★★ How many sounds are there in «chips»?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 there | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 6 sounds | case |
| 4 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 many | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sounds | amod |
| 6 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 there | cop |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 chips | case |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 chips | punct |
| 11 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 there | obl |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 chips | punct |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ★ | chips | there property | tree rules |
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: Careful!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Careful | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
4: ch, i, p, s
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 ch | nummod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 ch | punct |
| 3 | ch | ch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 i | punct |
| 5 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ch | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 p | punct |
| 7 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ch | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 s | punct |
| 9 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ch | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
6: c, h, i, p, s and a silent e
The tree, 10 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 c | nummod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 c | punct |
| 3 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 h | punct |
| 5 | h | H | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 c | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 p | punct |
| 7 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 p | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 p | punct |
| 9 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 c | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 s | punct |
| 11 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 p | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 e | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 e | det |
| 14 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 e | amod |
| 15 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 p | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | p | i | tree rules |
Option 3
3: chi, p, s
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 chi | punct |
| 3 | chi | chi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 3 | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 p | punct |
| 5 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chi | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 s | punct |
| 7 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chi | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
5: c, h, i, p, s
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 c | nummod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 c | punct |
| 3 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 h | punct |
| 5 | h | H | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 c | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 i | punct |
| 7 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 c | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 p | punct |
| 9 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 c | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 s | punct |
| 11 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 c | parataxis |
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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