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Test 3 · ★ · Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones

A greengrocer's sign says «apple's 50p». What should it say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sign, greengrocer · What happens: say, sign · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 6 «Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones» 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: A greengrocer's sign says «apple's 50p».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 greengrocer	det
2	greengrocer	greengrocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sign	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 greengrocer	case
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 p	punct
7	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 p	compound
8	's	's	PART	_	7 apple	case
9	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 p	nummod
10	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	ccomp
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 p	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a greengrocer's sign						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	sign		a greengrocer						nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 should it say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	greengrocer						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

apples' 50p

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 p	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 apples	case
3	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 p	nummod
4	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

apples 50p

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 p	nummod
3	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 apples	conj

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

Option 3

apple's' 50p

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 p	nsubj
2	's	's	PART	_	1 apple	case
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 p	punct
4	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 p	nummod
5	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Apple's 50P

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apple	Apple	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 P	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Apple	case
3	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 P	nummod
4	P	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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