Test 11 · ★ · Tricky words and common exception words
★★★ Grace can read 20 tricky words but spell only 12. How many can she read but not yet spell?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★, ★ · What happens: read, spell, not spell · To what, where: 20 tricky words, 12, many
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 3 «Tricky words and common exception words» 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: ★★★ Grace can read 20 tricky words but spell only 12.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 read | nsubj |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Grace | case |
| 4 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 read | aux |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 words | nummod |
| 8 | tricky | tricky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | amod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 read | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 spell | cc |
| 11 | spell | spell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 read | conj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 12 | advmod |
| 13 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 spell | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 read | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | can | ★ ★ ★ Grace | 20 tricky words | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | spell | present | ★ ★ ★ Grace not said here | 12 | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent 12=Theme |
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 can she read but not yet spell?
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 | 5 read | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 read | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 read | nsubj |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 spell | cc |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 spell | advmod |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 spell | advmod |
| 9 | spell | spell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 read | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 read | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | can | ★ | many | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not spell | infinitive | ★ not said here | yet | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
32
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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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