Exam question 1 · Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment

Ascertain the correct spelling of the word formed by the addition of the suffix -ness to the adjective «happy».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, form, spell · To what, where: correct spelling, word

This is exam question 1 of lesson 9 «Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spelling	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spelling	amod
4	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 word	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spelling	nmod
8	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 word	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 addition	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 addition	det
11	addition	addition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 formed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 ness	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ness	det
14	suffix	suffix	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ness	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 suffix	punct
16	ness	ness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 addition	nmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 adjective	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 adjective	det
19	adjective	adjective	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ness	nmod
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 happy	punct
21	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 adjective	amod
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 happy	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the correct spelling of the word		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Topic
2	form	participle		the word not said here	by the addition of the suffix ness to the adjective	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by addition=Location
3	spell			the word		nom spelling «communication transitive»: of=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

happieness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	happieness	happieness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

hapiness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hapiness	hapiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

happyness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	happyness	happyness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

happiness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	happiness	happiness	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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