Test 10 · ★ · The apostrophe war
A sign on a door says "Womens changing room". Fix it.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sign, Womens, you · What happens: say, change, fix · To what, where: Womens, room · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ 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: A sign on a door says "Womens changing room".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sign | det |
| 2 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sign | nmod |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Womens | punct |
| 8 | Womens | women | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 says | obj |
| 9 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 Womens | acl |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changing | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Womens | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a sign on a door | Womens | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent women=Topic | ||||
| 2 | change in a quote | gerund | Womens not said here | room | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=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.
Sentence 2: Fix it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Fix | obj |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fix | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | imperative | you not said here | room | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Womens' changing room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Womens | women | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 changing | nsubj |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Womens | case |
| 3 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | gerund | Womens | room | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Women's changing room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 room | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Women | case |
| 3 | changing | changing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 room | compound |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Womens's changing room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Womens | Womens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 room | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Womens | case |
| 3 | changing | changing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 room | compound |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Woman's' changing room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 room | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Woman | case |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 changing | punct |
| 4 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 room | amod |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | gerund | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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