Test 2 · ★★★ · Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment

«careful's got full in it, so two l's, obvs». What's the slip?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: slip · What happens: get, be · To what, where: obvs

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 9 «Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment» 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: «careful's got full in it, so two l's, obvs».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
2	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	compound
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 full	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 obvs	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	14 obvs	advmod
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 l	nummod
11	l	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 obvs	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 l	case
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 obvs	punct
14	obvs	obv	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 obvs	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive		two l's obvs				full property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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's the slip?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 slip	det
4	slip	slip	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 slip						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It's «carful» with no e

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	4 carful	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 carful	cop
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 carful	punct
4	carful	carful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 carful	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 e	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 e	det
8	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carful	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	It					with no e; carful property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The suffix -ful has one l, unlike the word «full»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ful	det
2	suffix	suffix	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ful	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 suffix	punct
4	ful	ful	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 l	nummod
7	l	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 word	punct
9	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	11 word	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 word	det
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 l	appos
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 full	punct
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 word	appos
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 full	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the suffix ful	one l					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent l=Patient

Option 3

It's «caerful» with ae, like in old books

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	4 caerful	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 caerful	cop
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 caerful	punct
4	caerful	caerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 caerful	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 ae	case
7	ae	ae	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caerful	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 books	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 books	case
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 books	case
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 books	amod
12	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ae	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	It					with ae and old books; caerful property	tree rules

Option 4

Nothing, «carefull» is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 right	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carefull	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 carefull	punct
4	carefull	carefull	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	appos
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 carefull	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 right	cop
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					right property	tree rules

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