Exam question 4 · Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends

Ascertain the correctly spelled form of the word meaning "with certainty".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, word · What happens: ascertain, spell, mean, form · To what, where: spelled form, certainty, word

This is exam question 4 of lesson 12 «Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends» 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 form	det
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 spelled	advmod
4	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 form	amod
5	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 word	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 form	nmod
9	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 word	acl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 certainty	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 certainty	case
12	certainty	certainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meaning	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 certainty	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the spelled form of the word		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Topic
2	spell	participle			correctly property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent
3	mean	gerund	the word not said here	certainty		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent certainty=Topic
4	form			the word		nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

defiantly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	defiantly	defiantly	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

definitely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	definitely	definitely	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

definately

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	definately	definitely	ADV	Typo=Yes	root	root

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

Option 4

definatly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	definatly	definatly	ADV	_	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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