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Test 4 · ★ · The apostrophe war

Your brother writes "the boys' football" about his own one ball. He has no brothers. What should it be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, football · What happens: write, have, be · To what, where: football, brothers

This is test 4 · ★ 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 brother writes "the boys' football" about his own one ball.

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 writes	nsubj
3	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 football	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 football	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 boys	case
8	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 football	punct
10	about	about	ADP	_	14 ball	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ball	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ball	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ball	compound
14	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	Your brother	the boys's football				about brother's own one ball	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent football=Recipient about ball=Topic

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 has no brothers.

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	brother	no brothers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient

Sentence 3: What should it be?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 be	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 be	nsubj
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	should	football						vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

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

the boy's football

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 football	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 boy	case
4	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the boys football's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 football	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 football	compound
3	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	's	's	PART	_	3 football	case

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

Option 3

the boy's' football

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 football	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 boy	case
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 football	punct
5	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the boys' football

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 football	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 boys	case
4	football	football	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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