Test 11 · Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging
★★★ "The horses' stables" and "the horse's stables". In which do the stables belong to more than one horse?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stables · What happens: belong
This is test 11 of lesson 34 «Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging» 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: ★★★ "The horses' stables" and "the horse's stables".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 stables | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horses | det |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stables | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 horses | case |
| 8 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ★ | appos |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 stables | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stables | cc |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 stables | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horse | det |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stables | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 horse | case |
| 15 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ★ | conj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 stables | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: In which do the stables belong to more than one horse?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 belong | obl |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 belong | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stables | det |
| 5 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 belong | nsubj |
| 6 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 horse | case |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 10 one | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 more | fixed |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 horse | nummod |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 belong | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 belong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present · do-support | the stables | to one horse | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The horse's stables
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stables | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 horse | case |
| 4 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The horses' stables
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 horses | det |
| 2 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stables | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 horses | case |
| 4 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Both of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Both | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Neither of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Neither | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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