Test 2 · ★★★ · Olympiad: the Spelling Bee
Kai, from Manchester: "Wenzday's just W-E-N-S-D-A-Y, sorted, our kid." What is the right spelling?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kai, right spelling · What happens: sort, be · To what, where: kid
This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 55 «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» 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: Kai, from Manchester: "Wenzday's just W-E-N-S-D-A-Y, sorted, our kid."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sorted | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Manchester | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Manchester | case |
| 4 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kai | conj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 sorted | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 sorted | punct |
| 7 | Wenzday | Wenzday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 W | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Wenzday | case |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 W | advmod |
| 10 | W | W | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sorted | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 E | punct |
| 12 | E | E | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 W | appos |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 N | punct |
| 14 | N | N | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 W | conj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 S | punct |
| 16 | S | S | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 W | conj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 D | punct |
| 18 | D | D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 W | conj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Y | punct |
| 20 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Y | det |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Y | punct |
| 22 | Y | Y | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 W | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sorted | punct |
| 24 | sorted | sort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 kid | punct |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 kid | nmod:poss |
| 27 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sorted | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 kid | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 kid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort in a quote | past | Kai and Manchester | our kid | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=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: What is the right spelling?
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 | 5 spelling | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spelling | amod |
| 5 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the right spelling | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
W-E-N-D-S-D-A-Y
The tree, 8 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W | W | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 E | punct |
| 3 | E | E | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | appos |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 N | punct |
| 5 | N | N | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 D | punct |
| 7 | D | D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 S | punct |
| 9 | S | S | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 D | punct |
| 11 | D | D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Y | punct |
| 13 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Y | det |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 A | punct |
| 15 | Y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
W-E-N-S-D-A-Y
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W | W | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 E | punct |
| 3 | E | E | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | appos |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 N | punct |
| 5 | N | N | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 S | punct |
| 7 | S | S | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 D | punct |
| 9 | D | D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Y | punct |
| 11 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Y | det |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 A | punct |
| 13 | Y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
W-E-D-N-E-S-D-A-Y
The tree, 9 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W | W | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 E | punct |
| 3 | E | E | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | appos |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 D | punct |
| 5 | D | D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 N | punct |
| 7 | N | N | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 E | punct |
| 9 | E | E | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | list |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 S | punct |
| 11 | S | S | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 D | punct |
| 13 | D | D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Y | punct |
| 15 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Y | det |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 A | punct |
| 17 | Y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
W-E-D-N-S-D-A-Y
The tree, 8 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W | W | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 E | punct |
| 3 | E | E | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | appos |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 D | punct |
| 5 | D | D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 N | punct |
| 7 | N | N | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 S | punct |
| 9 | S | S | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 D | punct |
| 11 | D | D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Y | punct |
| 13 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Y | det |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 A | punct |
| 15 | Y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 W | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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