Test 9 · ★ · Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones
«is it one deer, two deers?» What is the plural?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, plural · What happens: be · To what, where: one deer
This is test 9 · ★ 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: «is it one deer, two deers?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 deer | punct |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 deer | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 deer | nsubj |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 deer | nummod |
| 5 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 deers | punct |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 deers | nummod |
| 8 | deers | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 deer | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 deer | punct |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 deer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | it | one deer and two deers | 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.
Sentence 2: What is the plural?
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 | 4 plural | det |
| 4 | plural | plural | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the plural | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
deers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deers | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
dear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
deer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
deeres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deeres | deere | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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