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Test 1 · ★ · The apostrophe war

Your mate's market stall sign says "Fresh egg's £2." He goes "what, it's proper English, innit." What's the fix?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: market stall sign, mate, sign, egg, fix · What happens: say, sign, go, be · To what, where: Fresh egg, proper English · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 15 «The apostrophe war» 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 mate's market stall sign says "Fresh egg's £2."

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 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sign	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mate	case
4	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sign	compound
5	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sign	compound
6	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 egg	punct
9	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 egg	amod
10	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obj
11	's	's	PART	_	10 egg	case
12	£	£	SYM	_	10 egg	nmod
13	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 £	nummod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate's market stall sign	Fresh egg					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent egg=Topic
2	sign		Your mate						nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=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: He goes "what, it's proper English, innit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 goes	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 English	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 English	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 English	cop
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 English	amod
9	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 what	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 English	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	sign						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	egg	proper English and innit					tree rules

Sentence 3: What's the fix?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fix	det
4	fix	fix	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fix						tree rules

The options

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

Fresh eggs £2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eggs	amod
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	£	£	SYM	_	2 eggs	nmod
4	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 £	nummod

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

Option 2

Fresh egg's' £2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 egg	amod
2	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 egg	case
4	'	's	PART	_	2 egg	case
5	£	£	SYM	_	2 egg	nmod
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod

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

Option 3

Fresh eggs' £2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eggs	amod
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	'	's	PART	_	2 eggs	case
4	£	£	SYM	_	2 eggs	nmod
5	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 £	nummod

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

Option 4

It's fine as it is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 is	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 is	nsubj
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	be	present	it						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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