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Test 1 · ★ · Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling

«proper job, my lover! now read: the ___ was on the farm, cow or snow?». Which fits and why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: proper job · What happens: read, be, fit · To what, where: farm

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 4 «Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling» 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: «proper job, my lover! now read: the ___ was on the farm, cow or snow?».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 job	punct
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 job	amod
3	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 read	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lover	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lover	nmod:poss
6	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 job	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 job	punct
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 read	advmod
9	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 read	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 _	det
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 _	punct
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 read	punct
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 farm	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 farm	cop
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 farm	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 farm	det
18	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 _	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cow	punct
20	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 farm	appos
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 snow	cc
22	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cow	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 cow	punct
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 cow	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read in a quote	infinitive	proper job and my lover				now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past				the farm			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: Which fits and why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 fits	nsubj
2	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 why	cc
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 fits	conj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 fits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present							vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Cow, because ow always says /ow/

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 says	mark
4	ow	ow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 says	advmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Cow	acl:relcl
7	/	/	PUNCT	_	8 ow	punct
8	ow	ow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	obj
9	/	/	PUNCT	_	8 ow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	ow	ow				always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ow=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cow, because a cow fits a farm sentence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fits	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fits	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 fits	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fits	nsubj
6	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sentence	det
8	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sentence	compound
9	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	Cow	a farm sentence					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient

Option 3

Both fit the farm, so either answer is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 fit	nsubj
2	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 farm	det
4	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fit	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 right	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 right	advmod
7	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	8 answer	det
8	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 right	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 right	cop
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	Both	the farm					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Patient
2	is	present	either answer					right property	tree rules

Option 4

Snow, because ow always says /oa/

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 says	mark
4	ow	ow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 ow	advmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	/	/	PUNCT	_	8 oa	punct
8	oa	oa	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	obj
9	/	/	PUNCT	_	8 oa	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Snow	oa					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oa=Topic

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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