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Test 7 · ★★★ · Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment

In a cartoon, a teacher writes «humourous» on the board. What should it be?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher · What happens: write, be · To what, where: cartoon

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: In a cartoon, a teacher writes «humourous» on the board.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 writes	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 teacher	det
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 writes	nsubj
7	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 humourous	punct
9	humourous	humourous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 writes	xcomp
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 humourous	punct
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 board	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 board	det
13	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 writes	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	a teacher			a cartoon		on the board; humourous property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Destination

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 should it be?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 be	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 be	nsubj
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	should	teacher						vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

humorous: the u of humour drops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	humorous	humorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 u	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 u	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 u	det
4	u	u	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 drops	case
6	humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drops	compound
7	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 u	nmod

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

Option 2

humourous: keep the root exactly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	humourous	humourous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keep	advcl
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 humourous	punct
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 root	det
5	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	the root				exactly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme

Option 3

humerous: like «humerus» the bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	humerous	humerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 humerus	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 humerus	case
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 humerus	punct
5	humerus	humerus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 humerous	appos
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 humerus	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bone	det
8	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 humerous	obl

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

humorus: drop the o too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	humorus	humorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 drop	punct
3	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 o	det
5	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	3 drop	advmod

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