Test 9 · ★ · Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling

«can or not, teacher, I write bird as burd, same sound one». What is the answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, answer · What happens: write, be · To what, where: bird

This is test 9 · ★ 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: «can or not, teacher, I write bird as burd, same sound one».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 can	punct
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 teacher	aux
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 not	cc
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 can	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 teacher	punct
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 write	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 teacher	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 write	nsubj
9	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 write	obj
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 burd	case
12	burd	burd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 write	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sound	punct
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sound	amod
15	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 burd	conj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 sound	flat
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 write	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write in a quote	present	I	bird				as burd and same sound; teacher vocative	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent bird=Result as burd=Attribute

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: What is the answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 answer	det
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

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

Not allowed: «bird» uses «ir», and each word has its usual spelling

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 allowed	advmod
2	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 uses	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uses	nsubj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct
7	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 allowed	advcl
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 ir	punct
9	ir	ir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uses	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 ir	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 has	cc
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 word	det
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 uses	conj
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 spelling	nmod:poss
17	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 spelling	amod
18	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not allow	participle			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	use	present	bird	ir	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ir=Patient
3	have	present	each word	word's usual spelling	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient
4	spell		word		nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Not allowed: «bird» is spelled «berd»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 allowed	advmod
2	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 spelled	advcl
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 allowed	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spelled	nsubj:pass
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 spelled	aux:pass
8	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 berd	punct
10	berd	berd	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spelled	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 berd	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	participle							vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	spell	present · passive		bird					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme berd=Manner

Option 3

Can, because all three spellings are the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 same	aux
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 same	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 same	mark
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 spellings	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 spellings	nummod
6	spellings	spelling	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 same	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 same	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	all three spellings					same property	tree rules

Option 4

Can, but only in Singapore English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 English	aux
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 English	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 English	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 English	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 English	case
6	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 English	compound
7	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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