Test 12 · Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check
★★★ A made-up word has sound buttons: one dot under th, one under i, one under ng. How many sounds and letters?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: make up, have · To what, where: sound buttons
This is test 12 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: ★★★ A made-up word has sound buttons: one dot under th, one under i, one under ng.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 8 word | case |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 word | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 up | punct |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 made | compound:prt |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 buttons | compound |
| 11 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 has | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 dot | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 dot | nummod |
| 14 | dot | dot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | parataxis |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 th | case |
| 16 | th | th | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dot | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 dot | conj |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 i | case |
| 20 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 one | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 one | conj |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 ng | case |
| 24 | ng | ng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 one | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | ★ ★ a made word | sound buttons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=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 sounds and letters?
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 sounds | amod |
| 3 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 letters | cc |
| 5 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sounds | conj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sounds | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
3 sounds, 3 letters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 sounds | nummod |
| 2 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 letters | punct |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 letters | nummod |
| 5 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sounds | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
5 sounds, 3 letters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 sounds | nummod |
| 2 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 letters | punct |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 letters | nummod |
| 5 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sounds | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
5 sounds, 5 letters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 sounds | nummod |
| 2 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 letters | punct |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 letters | nummod |
| 5 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sounds | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
3 sounds, 5 letters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 sounds | nummod |
| 2 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 letters | punct |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 letters | nummod |
| 5 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sounds | nmod |
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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