Test 4 · ★★★ · Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment

What would happen if -ous ended in e, like «house»?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ous · What happens: happen, end · To what, where: e

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 ended	mark
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 if	punct
6	ous	ous	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ended	nsubj
7	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 e	case
9	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ended	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 house	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 house	punct
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 e	appos
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 house	punct
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	end a condition, not said to happen	past	ous			e			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

«Famous» would be spelled «famouse», which it isn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Famous	punct
2	Famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spelled	nsubj:pass
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Famous	punct
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 spelled	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 spelled	aux:pass
6	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 famouse	punct
8	famouse	famouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spelled	xcomp
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 famouse	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 is	nsubj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 is	nsubj
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 famouse	parataxis
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell	would · passive		Famous					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme
2	not be	present	famouse						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

«House» would lose its e

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 House	punct
2	House	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 House	punct
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lose	aux
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 e	nmod:poss
7	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	House	House's e					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Eventuality

Option 3

All -ous words would rhyme with «house»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ous	det
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 All	punct
3	ous	ous	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 words	compound
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rhyme	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 rhyme	aux
6	rhyme	rhyme	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 house	punct
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rhyme	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 rhyme	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rhyme	would	ous words					with house	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with house=Co-Patient

Option 4

Nothing would change in any word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 word	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			any word			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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