Test 11 · Silent letters and the mystery of -ough

Puzzle: which -ough word rhymes with "off"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ough word · What happens: rhyme · To what, where: Puzzle

This is test 11 of lesson 13 «Silent letters and the mystery of -ough» 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	Puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 rhymes	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 rhymes	obj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 which	punct
5	ough	ough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rhymes	nsubj
7	rhymes	rhyme	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Puzzle	acl:relcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 off	case
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 off	punct
10	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rhymes	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 off	punct
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Puzzle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rhyme	present	ough word	Puzzle				with off	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent which=Patient with off=Co-Patient

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

cough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

though

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	though	though	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	through	through	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

bough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bough	bough	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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