Test 10 · ★ · Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling

★★★ Which word becomes a NEW real word when you add a silent e to the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, you · What happens: become, add · To what, where: NEW real word, silent e

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 becomes	nsubj
4	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 becomes	nsubj
6	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 word	det
8	NEW	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 word	amod
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 word	amod
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 becomes	xcomp
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 add	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 add	nsubj
13	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 becomes	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 e	det
15	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 e	amod
16	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 add	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 end	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 end	det
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 add	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 becomes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	★ ★ ★	a NEW real word					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	add speech: assert	present	you	a silent e			to the end		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent e=Patient to end=Co-Patient

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

bend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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