Test 9 · Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging

Which shows the toys belong to the women?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toys · What happens: show, belong · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 toys	det
4	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 belong	nsubj
5	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 women	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 women	det
8	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 belong	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	belong	present	the toys					to the women	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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 womens' toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 womens	det
2	womens	women	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 toys	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 womens	case
4	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

the women toy's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 toy	det
2	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 toy	compound
3	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	's	's	PART	_	3 toy	case

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

Option 3

the womans' toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 womans	det
2	womans	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 toys	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 womans	case
4	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the women's toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 women	det
2	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 toys	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 women	case
4	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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