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Test 3 · Silent letters and the mystery of -ough

Your cousin reads "though, through, tough" out loud as "thuff, thruff, tuff". Which is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin · What happens: read, be

This is test 3 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

Sentence 1: Your cousin reads "though, through, tough" out loud as "thuff, thruff, tuff".

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 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reads	nsubj
3	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 reads	punct
5	though	though	ADV	_	3 reads	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tough	punct
7	through	through	ADV	_	9 tough	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tough	punct
9	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reads	conj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 loud	punct
11	out	out	ADV	_	12 loud	advmod
12	loud	loud	ADV	_	9 tough	advmod
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 thuff	case
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 thuff	punct
15	thuff	thuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 loud	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thruff	punct
17	thruff	thruff	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thuff	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tuff	punct
19	tuff	tuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thuff	appos
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 tuff	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Your cousin					though property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Which is right?

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	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only "thruff"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 thruff	advmod
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thruff	punct
3	thruff	thruff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thruff	punct

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

Option 2

None of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 None	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Only "tuff" is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 tuff	advmod
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tuff	punct
3	tuff	tuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 right	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tuff	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 right	cop
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	tuff					right property	tree rules

Option 4

All three are right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 right	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all three					right property	tree rules

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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