Test 3 · Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging
In a cartoon, a sign says "Free kitten's to good home." What should it say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sign, home · What happens: say · To what, where: good home, cartoon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 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: In a cartoon, a sign says "Free kitten's to good home."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sign | det |
| 6 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 kitten | punct |
| 9 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kitten | amod |
| 10 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | ccomp |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 kitten | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 home | amod |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a sign | good home | a cartoon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to home=Recipient |
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 should it say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | home | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Free kitten to good home's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kitten | amod |
| 2 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 home | amod |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kitten | nmod |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 home | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Free kittens to good home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kittens | amod |
| 2 | kittens | kitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 home | amod |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kittens | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Free kittens' to good home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kittens | amod |
| 2 | kittens | kitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 kittens | punct |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 home | amod |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kittens | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Free kitten's' to good home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kitten | amod |
| 2 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 kitten | case |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 kitten | punct |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 home | amod |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kitten | nmod |
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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