Test 4 · Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends
A sign says "Dog's must be on there leads." How many mistakes?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sign · What happens: say, be · To what, where: leads · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 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 sign says "Dog's must be on there leads."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sign | det |
| 2 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 leads | punct |
| 5 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Dog | case |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 leads | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 leads | cop |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 leads | case |
| 10 | there | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes | 11 leads | nmod:poss |
| 11 | leads | lead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 says | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 leads | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 leads | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a sign | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | must | Dog's leads | tree rules |
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: How many mistakes?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mistakes | amod |
| 3 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 mistakes | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
One: there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 One | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Two: Dog's and there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dog | punct |
| 3 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Two | appos |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Dog | case |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 there | cc |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Two | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
None, it's correct
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 correct | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 None | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 correct | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 correct | cop |
| 5 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | None | correct property | tree rules |
Option 4
Three: Dog's, must, there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 must | punct |
| 3 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | _ | 6 must | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Dog | case |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dog | punct |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Three | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 must | punct |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 must | advmod |
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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