Test 11 · Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check
★★★ Noah adds «uh» to every sound in «crisp». How many extra sounds does he add?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, many extra sounds · What happens: add
This is test 11 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: ★★★ Noah adds «uh» to every sound in «crisp».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 adds | nsubj |
| 4 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 adds | nsubj |
| 5 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 uh | punct |
| 7 | uh | uh | INTJ | _ | 5 adds | discourse |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 uh | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sound | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 sound | det |
| 11 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 adds | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 crisp | case |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 crisp | punct |
| 14 | crisp | crisp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sound | nmod |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 crisp | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 adds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present | ★ ★ ★ | to every sound in crisp | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to sound=Co-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.
Sentence 2: How many extra sounds does he add?
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 | 4 sounds | amod |
| 3 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sounds | amod |
| 4 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 add | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 add | aux |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 add | nsubj |
| 7 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 add | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present · do-support | many extra sounds | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
4, one after each consonant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 4 | nmod |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 consonant | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 consonant | det |
| 6 | consonant | consonant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 one | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
5, one after every letter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 5 | nmod |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 letter | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 letter | det |
| 6 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 one | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1, only at the end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 end | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 end | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 1 | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
none, because «uh» is not a sound
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sound | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 uh | mark |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 uh | punct |
| 5 | uh | uh | INTJ | _ | 10 sound | advcl |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 uh | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sound | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 sound | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sound | det |
| 10 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 none | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | a sound | tree rules |
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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