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Test 8 · ★ · The apostrophe war

A boomer uncle writes "the 1980's were rad." ("Rad" means great.) How would a modern style guide write the decade?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boomer uncle, 1980's, Rad, modern style guide · What happens: write, be, mean · To what, where: rad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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 boomer uncle writes "the 1980's were rad."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 uncle	det
2	boomer	boomer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uncle	compound
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 writes	nsubj
4	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 rad	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 1980's	det
7	1980's	1980'	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	9 rad	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rad	cop
9	rad	rad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 writes	ccomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 rad	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 rad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	a boomer uncle						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	the 1980's	rad					tree rules

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: ("Rad" means great.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Rad	punct
3	Rad	rad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Rad	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Rad					great property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: How would a modern style guide write the decade?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 write	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 write	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 guide	det
4	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 guide	amod
5	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guide	compound
6	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 write	nsubj
7	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 decade	det
9	decade	decade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 write	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 write	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	would	a modern style guide				decade		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

the 1980's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 1980's	det
2	1980's	1980'	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

the 1980s'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 1980s	det
2	1980s	1980s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	root	root
3	'	's	PART	_	2 1980s	case

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the 1980s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 1980s	det
2	1980s	1980s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

the 80s's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 80s	det
2	80s	80	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 80s	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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