Test 7 · Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends

Which is right: "Don't ___ your keys, the ring is ___"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ring · What happens: be, not _ · To what, where: keys, _ · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 _	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 _	punct
6	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 _	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 _	advmod
8	_	_	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 keys	punct
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 keys	punct
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 keys	nmod:poss
12	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 _	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 _	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ring	det
15	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 _	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 _	cop
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 _	punct
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 _	punct
19	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 _	parataxis
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 _	punct
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			right property	tree rules
2	not _ in a quote	infinitive · do-support		your keys		tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	the ring	_		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.

The options

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

lose, loose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 loose	punct
3	loose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 lose	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	imperative	you not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lose	infinitive	you not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

loose, loose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 loose	punct
3	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 loose	conj

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

Option 3

lose, lose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lose	punct
3	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 lose	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	imperative	you not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lose	infinitive	you not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

loose, lose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lose	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 loose	punct
3	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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