Test 8 · Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check

A cartoon robot reads «sandwich» by shouting all eight sounds at once. What do real readers do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon robot, eight sounds, real readers · What happens: read, shout, be, do · To what, where: sandwich

This is test 8 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 cartoon robot reads «sandwich» by shouting all eight sounds at once.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 robot	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 robot	compound
3	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reads	nsubj
4	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 sandwich	punct
6	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reads	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 sandwich	punct
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 shouting	mark
9	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 reads	advcl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sounds	det
11	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sounds	nummod
12	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shouting	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 shouting	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	a cartoon robot	sandwich					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandwich=Topic
2	shout speech: express	gerund	all eight sounds						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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 do real readers do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 readers	amod
4	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules
2	do	present	real readers						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Read it chunk by chunk, sand then wich, then join

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Read	obj
3	chunk	chunk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Read	xcomp
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 chunk	case
5	chunk	chunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chunk	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sand	punct
7	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chunk	conj
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 wich	advmod
9	wich	wich	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chunk	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 join	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 join	advmod
12	join	join	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Read	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	it			tree rules
2	chunk	infinitive	you not said here	wich		by chunk and sand	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	join	infinitive	you not said here		then		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Learn the whole word as a shape, like a picture

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 word	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 word	amod
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Learn	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 shape	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shape	det
7	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Learn	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 picture	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 picture	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 picture	det
11	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	imperative	you not said here	the whole word				as a shape; like a picture	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 3

Give up and skip all the long words, because only short words can be sounded out

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Give	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 skip	cc
4	skip	skip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 words	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 words	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 words	amod
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 skip	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sounded	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 sounded	mark
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 words	advmod
12	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 words	amod
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sounded	nsubj:pass
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 sounded	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 sounded	aux:pass
16	sounded	sound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Give	parataxis
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 sounded	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give up	imperative	you not said here		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	skip	infinitive	you not said here	all long words	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Agent
3	sound out	can · passive		short words	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Shout every letter's name in turn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 letter	det
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 name	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 letter	case
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shout	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 turn	case
7	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shout	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here	every letter's name		turn			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	name		every letter						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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