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Test 6 · ★★★ · Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment

«I'm nesh and useless today, can't even spell useles». What's right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: be, not spell · To what, where: useles

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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: «I'm nesh and useless today, can't even spell useles».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 nesh	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 nesh	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nesh	cop
4	nesh	nesh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 useless	cc
6	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nesh	conj
7	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nesh	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spell	punct
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 spell	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 spell	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 spell	advmod
12	spell	spell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 nesh	parataxis
13	useles	usele	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 spell	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 useles	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nesh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I				today	nesh property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		I not said here						tree rules
3	not spell in a quote	can		useles					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent usele=Theme

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 right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

useles: one s is enough at the end of a word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	useles	useles	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 enough	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 enough	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 s	nummod
4	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enough	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 enough	cop
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enough	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 word	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 word	det
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	useles				at the end of a word	enough property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

useless: use + less, nothing changes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 changes	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 useless	parataxis
4	+	+	SYM	_	5 less	cc
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 use	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 useless	punct
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 changes	nsubj
8	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	infinitive							vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	change	present	nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

uselless: double the l

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	uselless	uselless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 double	punct
3	double	double	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 uselless	conj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 l	det
5	l	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 double	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	double	infinitive		the l					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent l=Patient

Option 4

usless: drop the e of use

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	usless	usless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 drop	punct
3	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 usless	conj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 e	det
5	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 use	case
7	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 e	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	infinitive		the e of use					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Theme

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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