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Test 12 · ★ · Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling

★★★ In «the wind blew the bread off the table», one word has the vowel sound of «true» and one the vowel sound of «head». Which pair is it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, one word · What happens: blow, have, be · To what, where: bread, vowel sound, pair

This is test 12 · ★ 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: ★★★ In «the wind blew the bread off the table», one word has the vowel sound of «true» and one the vowel sound of «head».

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	8 blew	nsubj
4	In	in	ADP	_	7 wind	case
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 wind	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	nmod
8	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bread	det
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blew	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	13 table	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 table	det
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blew	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 blew	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 word	nummod
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	nsubj
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 blew	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sound	det
20	vowel	vowel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sound	compound
21	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 true	case
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 true	punct
24	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sound	nmod
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 true	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sound	cc
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 sound	nummod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sound	det
29	vowel	vowel	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sound	compound
30	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sound	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 head	punct
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sound	nmod
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 sound	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 blew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow in a quote	past	★ ★ ★ in the wind	the bread				off the table	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bread=Patient off table=Co-Patient
2	have	present	one word	the vowel sound of true and the one vowel sound of head					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=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.

Sentence 2: Which pair is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 it	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pair	nmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 pair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		pair					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

wind and blew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 blew	cc
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past							vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

blew and bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bread	cc
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 blew	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past							vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 3

bread and table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 table	cc
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bread	conj

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

Option 4

the and blew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 blew	det
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 blew	cc
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past							vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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