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Test 8 · Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging

Aussie kid: "Me mates footy boots are heaps muddy." ("Footy" is football, "heaps" means very.) One mate. Where is the apostrophe in standard writing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Aussie kid, Footy, football, apostrophe · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: heaps, football

This is test 8 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: Aussie kid: "Me mates footy boots are heaps muddy."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aussie	aussie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kid	amod
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heaps	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Me	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Me	punct
5	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 kid	nmod
6	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Me	conj
7	footy	footy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boots	amod
8	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Me	conj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 heaps	cop
10	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heaps	amod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 heaps	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 heaps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Aussie kid Me	heaps					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: ("Footy" is football, "heaps" means very.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 football	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Footy	punct
3	Footy	footy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 football	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Footy	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 football	cop
6	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 heaps	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 heaps	punct
9	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 football	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 heaps	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	very	very	ADV	_	11 means	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Footy	football					tree rules
2	mean	present	football						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: One mate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 One	vocative
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 One	punct

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

Sentence 4: Where is the apostrophe in standard writing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 apostrophe	det
4	apostrophe	apostrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 writing	case
6	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 writing	amod
7	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 apostrophe	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the apostrophe in standard writing					where property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

mate's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 mate	case

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

Option 2

muddy's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 muddy	case

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

Option 3

boot's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 boot	case

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

Option 4

mates'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	'	's	PART	_	1 mates	case

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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