Test 8 · ★★ · Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e

«panicing looks fine to me». How would «panicing» sound if you read it with the rules?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: panicing, you · What happens: look, read · To what, where: sound

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» 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: «panicing looks fine to me».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
2	panicing	panicing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looks	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fine	obl
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	panicing					fine property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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 would «panicing» sound if you read it with the rules?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sound	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sound	aux
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 panicing	punct
4	panicing	panicing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sound	compound
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 panicing	punct
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 read	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 read	nsubj
9	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sound	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 read	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 rules	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rules	det
13	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 read	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	you	sound				with the rules	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Like «pan-i-king» with a hard k

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	7 king	case
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 king	punct
3	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 king	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 pan	punct
5	i	i	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 king	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 king	punct
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 king	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 k	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 k	det
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 k	amod
12	k	k	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 king	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Like «pan-i-sing», with a soft c

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	7 sing	case
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 sing	punct
3	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sing	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 pan	punct
5	i	i	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sing	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sing	punct
7	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 sing	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 c	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 c	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 c	det
12	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 c	amod
13	c	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sing	conj

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

Option 3

Like «pain-sing», with a long a

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	5 sing	case
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 sing	punct
3	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sing	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 sing	punct
5	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 sing	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 long	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 long	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sing	amod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 long	conj

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

Option 4

Exactly like «panicking»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 panicking	advmod
2	like	like	SCONJ	_	4 panicking	mark
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 panicking	punct
4	panicking	panic	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 panicking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	panic in a quote	gerund						exactly property	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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