Exam question 4 · Homophones: words that sound the same

Ascertain which word denotes writing materials such as paper and envelopes.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, word · What happens: ascertain, denote, write · To what, where: materials

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 denotes	nsubj
4	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	acl:relcl
5	writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 denotes	xcomp
6	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 writing	obj
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	9 paper	case
8	as	as	ADP	_	7 such	fixed
9	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 materials	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 envelopes	cc
11	envelopes	envelope	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 paper	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	denote	present	which word			vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic
3	write	gerund	which word not said here	materials	such paper and envelopes	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Stationery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stationery	stationery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Stationary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stationary	stationary	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Statutory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Statutory	Statutory	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Stationed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stationed	station	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	station	participle							vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent

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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