Exam question 2 · Homophones: words that sound the same

Identify the correct form in the sentence "The lion seized its ___."

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, lion · What happens: identify, seize · To what, where: correct form, sentence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 27 «Homophones: words that sound the same» of the language course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 form	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 form	amod
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sentence	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sentence	det
7	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 seized	punct
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lion	det
10	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seized	nsubj
11	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 _	nmod:poss
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 seized	punct
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 seized	punct
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 seized	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the correct form		the sentence			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent form=Theme clause=Attribute
2	seize in a quote	past	the lion						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Pree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pree	pree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pree	imperative	you not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Pray

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	imperative	you not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Prey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Preigh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Preigh	Preigh	PROPN	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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