Test 5 · Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging

What would happen if you wrote "We were here" as "We're here"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, We · What happens: happen, write, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 wrote	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 wrote	nsubj
6	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 here	punct
8	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 here	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 here	cop
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 wrote	ccomp
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 here	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 here	mark
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 here	punct
14	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 here	nsubj
15	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 here	cop
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 here	parataxis
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 here	punct
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	write a condition, not said to happen	past	you		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	We	here property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	We	here 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 right answer

It would change from the past to the present

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	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 past	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 past	det
6	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 present	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 present	det
9	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	It			the past		to the present result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from past=Initial_State to present=Result

Option 2

It would show belonging

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	3 show	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 show	aux
3	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	belonging	belonging	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	would	It	belonging					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent belonging=Recipient

Option 3

It would become a question

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	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 question	det
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It	a question					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nothing at all, the meaning stays exactly the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 stays	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stays	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 meaning	det
6	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stays	nsubj
7	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 same	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 same	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stays	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	Nothing					same property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging/t5/