Test 11 · Editing and redrafting

Which tool can tell you that "there" should be "their"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tool · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: you, their · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 43 «Editing and redrafting» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 tool	det
2	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 there	mark
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 tell	ccomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 their	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 their	cop
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 their	punct
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 there	conj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 their	punct
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	which tool		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	should	which tool not said here	their = they					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A ruler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ruler	det
2	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A thesaurus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 thesaurus	det
2	thesaurus	thesaurus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Only the spellcheck on a laptop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 spellcheck	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spellcheck	det
3	spellcheck	spellcheck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 laptop	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 laptop	det
6	laptop	laptop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spellcheck	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Careful reading for meaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reading	amod
2	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 meaning	case
4	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reading	nmod

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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