Exam question 3 · Editing and redrafting

Select the principal limitation of automated spelling correction.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, limit · To what, where: principal limitation, automated spelling correction

This is exam question 3 of lesson 43 «Editing and redrafting» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 limitation	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 limitation	amod
4	limitation	limitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 correction	case
6	automated	automated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 correction	amod
7	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 correction	compound
8	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 limitation	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the principal limitation of automated spelling correction					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limitation=Theme
2	limit			automated spelling correction					nom limitation «cognition transitive»: of=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

It functions only in the morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 functions	nsubj
2	functions	function	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 morning	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 morning	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 functions	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	function	present	It				morning		vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It cannot recognise any English words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 recognise	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 recognise	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 recognise	advmod
4	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 words	det
6	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 recognise	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not recognise	can	It	any English words					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It misses correctly spelt words used in error

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 misses	nsubj
2	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 spelt	advmod
4	spelt	spelt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 misses	obj
6	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 words	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 error	case
8	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	miss	present	It	spelt words			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	spelt	participle				correctly property	tree rules
3	use	participle		spelt words not said here	error		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It alters every word that is longer than five letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 alters	nsubj
2	alters	alter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alters	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 longer	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 longer	cop
7	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 word	appos
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 letters	case
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 letters	nummod
10	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 longer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	alter	present	It	every word					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	is	present	that					than five letters; long property	tree rules

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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