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Test 2 · Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends

A Gen Z cousin comments "ur drawing slaps" on your art. ("Slaps" means is brilliant.) If you wrote it in full in school English, what would it be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ur, Slaps, you · What happens: slap, mean, be, write · To what, where: art, full

This is test 2 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: A Gen Z cousin comments "ur drawing slaps" on your art.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 comments	det
2	Gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Z	compound
3	Z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cousin	compound
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comments	compound
5	comments	comment	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 slaps	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 comments	punct
7	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 slaps	nmod:poss
8	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slaps	compound
9	slaps	slap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 slaps	punct
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 art	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 art	nmod:poss
13	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slaps	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 slaps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slap in a quote		ur			your art			nom slap «event transitive»: poss=agent on=place

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: ("Slaps" means is brilliant.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Slaps	punct
3	Slaps	slap	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Slaps	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 brilliant	cop
7	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Slaps						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is not said to happen	present	Slaps not said here					brilliant property	tree rules

Sentence 3: If you wrote it in full in school English, what would it be?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 wrote	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrote	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 full	case
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wrote	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 English	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 English	compound
9	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 English	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 be	obj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 be	aux
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 be	nsubj
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 English	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrote	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	you	art		full		in school English	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in full=Destination

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Your drawing slaps you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 drawing	nmod:poss
2	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slaps	nsubj
3	slaps	slap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 slaps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slap	present	Your drawing	you					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Instrument
2	draw		Your						nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Your drawing is brilliant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 drawing	nmod:poss
2	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brilliant	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brilliant	cop
4	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your drawing					brilliant property	tree rules
2	draw		Your						nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

You're drawing is brilliant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 drawing	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drawing	aux
3	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 brilliant	cop
5	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drawing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	present · progressive	You						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	You not said here					brilliant property	tree rules

Option 4

Yore drawing is brilliant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yore	yore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 drawing	amod
2	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brilliant	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brilliant	cop
4	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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