Exam question 3 · Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese

Ascertain the correctly punctuated notice.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, punctuate · To what, where: punctuated notice

This is exam question 3 of lesson 10 «Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese» of the language 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	5 notice	det
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 punctuated	advmod
4	punctuated	punctuate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 notice	amod
5	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the punctuated notice					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Topic
2	punctuate	participle						correctly property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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

Tomato's 50p

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tomato	Tomato	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 p	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Tomato	case
3	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 p	nummod
4	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Tomatoes' 50p

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 p	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Tomatoes	case
3	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 p	nummod
4	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tomatoes 50p

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 p	nummod
3	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tomatoes	list

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

Option 4

Tomatoe's 50p

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tomatoe	Tomatoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 p	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Tomatoe	case
3	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 p	nummod
4	p	p	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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