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Test 9 · Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends

In a cartoon, a pirate's map says "The tresure is over they're." Fix the last words.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: map, you · What happens: say, fix · To what, where: cartoon, last words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: In a cartoon, a pirate's map says "The tresure is over they're."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pirate	det
6	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 map	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 pirate	case
8	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 over	punct
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tresure	det
12	tresure	tresure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 over	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 over	cop
14	over	over	ADP	_	9 says	ccomp
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 're	nsubj
16	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 over	parataxis
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a pirate's map			a cartoon			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Manner

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: Fix the last words.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fix	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	imperative	you not said here	the last words					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent word=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

over their

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	over	over	ADP	_	2 their	case
2	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

over thier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	over	over	ADV	_	2 thier	advmod
2	thier	thy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 3

over they'r

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	over	over	ADP	_	2 they'r	case
2	they'r	they'r	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

over there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	over	over	ADV	_	2 there	advmod
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	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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