Test 7 · ★ · The apostrophe war
In a cartoon, a sign says "Ladies toilet's". Fix it.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sign, you · What happens: say, fix · To what, where: Ladies toilet, cartoon, toilet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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: In a cartoon, a sign says "Ladies toilet's".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sign | det |
| 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 toilet | punct |
| 9 | Ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 toilet | compound |
| 10 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obj |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 toilet | case |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 toilet | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a sign | Ladies toilet | a cartoon | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent toilet=Theme in cartoon=Manner |
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 | toilet | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Ladie's toilets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ladie | Ladie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 toilets | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ladie | case |
| 3 | toilets | toilet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Ladies' toilets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 toilets | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ladies | case |
| 3 | toilets | toilet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ladies toilet's'
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 toilet | compound |
| 2 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 toilet | case |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 toilet | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Lady's toilet's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 toilet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lady | case |
| 3 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 toilet | case |
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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