Test 7 · Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging

★★★ How many apostrophes are needed in "Its the mens football match and its kick-off is at six oclock"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: need, be · To what, where: ★, football match, six oclock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 needed	nsubj:pass
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	6 apostrophes	case
4	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 apostrophes	amod
6	apostrophes	apostrophe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ★	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 needed	aux:pass
8	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	15 match	case
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 match	punct
11	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 match	nmod:poss
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 match	det
13	mens	men	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 match	nsubj
14	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 match	compound
15	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needed	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 off	cc
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 off	nmod:poss
18	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 off	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 kick	punct
20	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 match	conj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 oclock	cop
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 oclock	case
23	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 oclock	nummod
24	oclock	oclock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needed	parataxis
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 oclock	punct
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 needed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · passive		★		Its football match and its kick off			tree rules
2	is in a quote	present				six oclock			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

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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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