Test 12 · ★★ · Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian
★★★ Which list has all four /shun/ spellings, one each?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★ · What happens: have · To what, where: four shun
This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 4 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 5 list | det |
| 5 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 shun | det |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 shun | nummod |
| 9 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 8 four | punct |
| 10 | shun | shun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 11 | / | / | SYM | _ | 12 spellings | cc |
| 12 | spellings | spelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shun | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 shun | appos |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 one | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | ★ ★ ★ which list | all four shun / spellings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shun=Patient |
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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
station, vision, mission, optician
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 vision | punct |
| 3 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 station | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mission | punct |
| 5 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 station | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 optician | punct |
| 7 | optician | optician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 station | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
action, fiction, mission, magician
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fiction | punct |
| 3 | fiction | fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 action | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mission | punct |
| 5 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 action | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 magician | punct |
| 7 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 action | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
passion, session, mission, tension
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 session | punct |
| 3 | session | session | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 passion | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mission | punct |
| 5 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 passion | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tension | punct |
| 7 | tension | tension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 passion | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
nation, motion, potion, lotion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 motion | punct |
| 3 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 nation | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 potion | punct |
| 5 | potion | potion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 nation | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lotion | punct |
| 7 | lotion | lotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 nation | conj |
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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