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Test 7 · ★★ · Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian

A cartoon wizard spells his job «wizardcian». Why doesn't -cian fit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon wizard, wizard · What happens: spell, job, not cian · To what, where: job, fit

This is test 7 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A cartoon wizard spells his job «wizardcian».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wizard	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wizard	compound
3	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spells	nsubj
4	spells	spell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 job	nmod:poss
6	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spells	obj
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 wizardcian	punct
8	wizardcian	wizardcian	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 job	appos
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 wizardcian	punct
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell	present	a cartoon wizard	wizard's job					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent job=Theme
2	job		wizard						nom job «act intransitive»: 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: Why doesn't -cian fit?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 cian	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cian	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cian	advmod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 cian	punct
5	cian	cian	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cian	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cian	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cian	present · do-support		fit					tree rules

The options

Option 1

-cian is only for words from music

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 words	punct
2	cian	cian	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 words	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 words	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 words	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 words	case
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 music	case
8	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 words	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	cian			music		for words	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

«Wizard» doesn't end in c

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Wizard	punct
2	Wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Wizard	punct
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 end	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 end	advmod
6	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 c	case
8	c	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not end	present · do-support	Wizard			c			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

It does fit; every job ends in -cian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fit	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fit	aux
3	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 ends	punct
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 job	det
6	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ends	nsubj
7	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fit	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 cian	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 in	punct
10	cian	cian	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present · do-support	It						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	end	present	every job			cian			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

-cian is only for women's jobs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 cian	punct
2	cian	cian	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jobs	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 jobs	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 jobs	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 jobs	case
6	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 jobs	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 women	case
8	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	cian					for women's jobs	tree rules

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