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Test 4 · Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging

A lad in Cork says "Whose round is it, yer man's?" ("Yer man" means that fella there.) Why "whose", not "who's"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lad, round, man · What happens: say, be, mean · To what, where: fella · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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: A lad in Cork says "Whose round is it, yer man's?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Cork	case
4	Cork	Cork	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lad	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
7	Whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 round	nmod:poss
8	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 man	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 man	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 man	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
12	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 man	nmod:poss
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	ccomp
14	's	's	PART	_	13 man	case
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	a lad in Cork						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	yer's man's round					's yer's man	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.

Sentence 2: ("Yer man" means that fella there.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
3	Yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 man	nmod:poss
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 fella	det
8	fella	fella	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obj
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 fella	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Yer's man	that fella					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fella=Topic

Sentence 3: Why "whose", not "who's"?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 whose	punct
3	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	1 Why	advcl:relcl
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 whose	punct
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 who	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 who	advmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 who	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 whose	appos
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 "	cop
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 who	punct
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They are the same word, just spelled two ways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 word	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spelled	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 spelled	advmod
8	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 word	acl
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 ways	nummod
10	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spelled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	the same word					tree rules
2	spell	participle	the same word not said here	two ways					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent way=Theme

Option 2

Who's is only used in questions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 used	nsubj:pass
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 used	aux
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 used	aux:pass
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 used	advmod
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 questions	case
7	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive				questions			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It asks about belonging, not "who is"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	SCONJ	_	4 belonging	mark
4	belonging	belong	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 asks	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 who	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 who	advmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 who	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 belonging	obj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 "	cop
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 who	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	It						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	belong	gerund							tree rules

Option 4

Whose is the short form of who is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 form	nmod:poss
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 form	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 form	det
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 form	amod
5	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 who	case
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 form	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 who	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the short form					tree rules
2	is	present							tree rules

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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