Test 5 · ★ · Tricky words and common exception words

Aiden, eh: «my book's American, my teacher's Canadian, who's wrong?»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aiden	Aiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aiden	punct
3	eh	eh	INTJ	_	1 Aiden	discourse
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 American	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 American	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 book	nmod:poss
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 American	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 book	case
9	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Aiden	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Canadian	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 teacher	nmod:poss
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Canadian	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 teacher	case
14	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 American	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wrong	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 wrong	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wrong	cop
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 American	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 wrong	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present						wrong property	tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The book, American spelling is always wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 book	det
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrong	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 book	punct
4	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spelling	amod
5	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 book	conj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wrong	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 wrong	advmod
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the book and American spelling					always, wrong property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody; color and colour are each right in their country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 right	nsubj
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 color	punct
3	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nobody	appos
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 colour	cc
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 color	conj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 right	cop
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 right	det
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 country	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 country	nmod:poss
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nobody			color's country		right property	tree rules

Option 3

The teacher, Canada uses only American spelling now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 uses	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Canada	punct
4	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 teacher	appos
5	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 American	advmod
7	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spelling	amod
8	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 uses	obj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 uses	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	the teacher	American spelling			now		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient

Option 4

Both of them, the real spelling is «culler», like it sounds

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 culler	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Both	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 culler	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spelling	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spelling	amod
7	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 culler	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 culler	cop
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 culler	punct
10	culler	culler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 culler	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sounds	punct
13	like	like	SCONJ	_	15 sounds	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sounds	nsubj
15	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 culler	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Both	culler					tree rules
2	sound	present	spelling						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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