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Test 7 · Silent letters and the mystery of -ough

Your brother says "every silent letter was once spoken." Which word proves him wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, word · What happens: say, speak, prove · To what, where: silent letter, letter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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 brother says "every silent letter was once spoken."

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 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 spoken	punct
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 letter	det
6	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 letter	amod
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spoken	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spoken	aux:pass
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 spoken	advmod
10	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 spoken	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 spoken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other in a quote	past · passive		every silent letter				once property	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.

Sentence 2: Which word proves him wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proves	nsubj
3	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 proves	obj
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 proves	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 proves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	which word	letter				wrong property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

The options

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

island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

knight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

knee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

write

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	imperative	you not said here						vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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