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Test 9 · ★ · The apostrophe war

Your mate types "The phone lost it's charge." What's the quick test?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, phone, quick test · What happens: type, lose, be · To what, where: charge · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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 mate types "The phone lost it's charge."

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 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 types	nsubj
3	types	type	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 phone	det
6	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	nsubj
7	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 types	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 charge	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 charge	cop
10	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	type	present	Your mate						tree rules
2	lose in a quote	past	the phone						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	phone	charge					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: What's the quick test?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 test	det
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 test	amod
5	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the quick test						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Ask whether the phone is plural

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 plural	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 phone	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plural	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plural	cop
6	plural	plural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ask	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the phone					plural property	tree rules

Option 2

Use it's whenever the word ends in s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 whenever	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 whenever	cop
4	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	1 Use	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ends	nsubj
7	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 whenever	advcl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 s	case
9	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					whenever property	tree rules
3	end	present	the word			s			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Try "it is": "lost it is charge" fails, so its

The tree, 10 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 is	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 lost	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 lost	punct
8	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fails	csubj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 charge	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 charge	cop
11	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 lost	punct
13	fails	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 its	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 its	advmod
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	1 Try	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here	charge					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus be=Experiencer its=Result
2	lose in a quote	past							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	it	charge					tree rules
4	fail	present							vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Add more apostrophes until it looks right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 apostrophes	amod
3	apostrophes	apostrophe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Add	obj
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 looks	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looks	nsubj
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Add	advcl
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	more apostrophes					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apostrophe=Patient
2	look	present	it					right property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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