Test 11 · ★ · The apostrophe war
Puzzle: "The teachers' room" and "The teacher's room". In which does one teacher own the room?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: one teacher
This is test 11 · ★ 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: Puzzle: "The teachers' room" and "The teacher's room".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Puzzle | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 room | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 teachers | det |
| 5 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 room | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 teachers | case |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Puzzle | appos |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 room | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 room | cc |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 room | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 teacher | det |
| 12 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 room | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 teacher | case |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Puzzle | conj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 room | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Puzzle | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: In which does one teacher own the room?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 3 does | mark |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 teacher | nummod |
| 5 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 6 | own | own | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | one teacher | own the room | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Both
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The teacher's room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 room | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 teacher | case |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Neither
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The teachers' room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teachers | det |
| 2 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 room | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 teachers | case |
| 4 | room | room | 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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