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Test 10 · ★ · Word classes: the jobs words do

Mum shouts, «Proper noun, love, capital letter!» Which words need capitals in «tom went to paris on tuesday»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, words, tom · What happens: shout, need, go · To what, where: Proper noun, capitals, paris

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 27 «Word classes: the jobs words do» 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: Mum shouts, «Proper noun, love, capital letter!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouts	nsubj
2	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 noun	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 noun	punct
5	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 noun	amod
6	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouts	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 love	punct
8	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 noun	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 letter	punct
10	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 letter	compound
11	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 noun	conj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 noun	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 shouts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	Mum	Proper noun and capital letter					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noun=Topic

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: Which words need capitals in «tom went to paris on tuesday»?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	capitals	capital	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 went	mark
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
7	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 need	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 paris	case
10	paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 tuesday	case
12	tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	which words	capitals					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot capital=Theme
2	go in a quote	past	tom			paris	tuesday		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to paris=Initial_Location

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

All of the words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 words	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 All	nmod

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

Option 2

went and to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	1 went	cc
3	to	to	PART	_	1 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Only tom, at the start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 tom	advmod
2	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tom	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 start	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 start	det
6	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tom	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tom, Paris and Tuesday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Paris	punct
3	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tom	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Tuesday	cc
5	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tom	conj

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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