Test 8 · Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends
Your dad, typing fast, writes "I'll pick u up at too." What did he mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, I · What happens: type, write, pick up, mean · To what, where: u · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 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: Your dad, typing fast, writes "I'll pick u up at too."
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 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 writes | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 typing | punct |
| 4 | typing | type | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 dad | acl |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 typing | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dad | punct |
| 7 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 pick | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 pick | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pick | aux |
| 11 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 writes | ccomp |
| 12 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 pick | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 pick | compound:prt |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 too | case |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 pick | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pick | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 pick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | type | gerund | Your dad not said here | fast property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | write | present | Your dad | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pick up in a quote | future | I | u | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
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: What did he mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past · do-support | dad | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Very much
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Towards you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Towards | towards | ADV | _ | 2 you | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Also
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Also | also | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
At two o'clock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 o'clock | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 o'clock | nummod |
| 3 | o'clock | o'clock | 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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