Test 6 · Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends

Your teacher swears by "i before e except after c." Which word gives her a headache?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: teacher, i, word · What happens: swear, e, give · To what, where: headache, teacher

This is test 6 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

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 teacher	nmod:poss
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swears	nsubj
3	swears	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 e	mark
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 e	punct
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 e	nsubj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 e	advmod
8	e	e	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 gives	advcl
9	except	except	ADP	_	11 c.	case
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 c.	case
11	c.	c.	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 e	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 e	punct
13	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	14 word	det
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gives	nsubj
15	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swears	advcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gives	iobj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 headache	det
18	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gives	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 swears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	swear	present	Your teacher				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	e in a quote	present	i			except c.	tree rules
3	give	present	which word	a headache	teacher		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient headache=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

their

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	root	root

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

Option 2

believe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	imperative	you not said here						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

receive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	receive	receive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	imperative	you not said here						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	field	field	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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