Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Language / Spelling traps: their, there, they're… / t10

Test 10 · Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends

Grandad says "I never know weather to wear a coat." Fix one word.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad, you · What happens: say, not know, wear, fix · To what, where: weather, coat, one word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 12 «Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends» of the language 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: Grandad says "I never know weather to wear a coat."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
7	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 wear	mark
9	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 know	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 coat	det
11	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wear	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Grandad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not know in a quote	present	Grandad	weather					tree rules
3	wear in a quote	to-infinitive	Grandad not said here	a coat					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=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: Fix one word.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 word	nummod
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fix	obj
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	imperative	you not said here	one word					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent word=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

weathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	weathers	weather	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

whether

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	root	root

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

Option 3

wether

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wether	wether	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 4

weather's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 weather	case

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/t10/