Test 2 · Editing and redrafting
★★★ Spellcheck finds no errors in "Their going too the park to sea there friends." How many words are wrong?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ Spellcheck, errors, many words · What happens: find, go, be · To what, where: errors, park · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ Spellcheck finds no errors in "Their going too the park to sea there friends."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Spellcheck | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Spellcheck | compound |
| 4 | Spellcheck | spellcheck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finds | nsubj |
| 5 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 errors | det |
| 7 | errors | error | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 finds | obj |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 going | mark |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 10 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 going | nsubj |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 finds | advcl |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 park | det |
| 14 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 going | advmod |
| 18 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 going | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finds | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | ★ ★ Spellcheck | no errors | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent error=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | gerund | errors = error | the park | there | to sea | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location park=Theme |
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: How many words are wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wrong | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrong | cop |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many words | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
None
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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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