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Test 7 · Homophones: words that sound the same

In a cartoon a knight rides at night, and the speech bubble says "Good nite, Sir Night!" What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: knight, speech bubble · What happens: ride, say, be · To what, where: cartoon, Good nite · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 27 «Homophones: words that sound the same» 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 knight rides at night, and the speech bubble says "Good nite, Sir Night!"

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	6 rides	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 knight	det
5	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rides	nsubj
6	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rides	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 says	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bubble	det
12	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bubble	compound
13	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rides	conj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 nite	punct
16	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 nite	amod
17	nite	nite	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 says	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Night	punct
19	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Night	compound
20	Night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nite	appos
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 nite	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 nite	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present	a knight			a cartoon	night		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the speech bubble	Good nite					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nite=Topic

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 wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Knights can't ride at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ride	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ride	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 ride	advmod
4	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ride	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ride	can	Knights				night		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The knight's title should be spelled "Knight"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knight	det
2	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 title	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 knight	case
4	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spelled	nsubj:pass
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 spelled	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 spelled	aux:pass
7	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Knight	punct
9	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spelled	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Knight	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell	should · passive		the knight's title					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme knight=Manner
2	title		the knight						nom title «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Nothing, it's all spelled correctly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 spelled	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spelled	nsubj:pass
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spelled	aux
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 spelled	advmod
6	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	6 spelled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell	present · passive		Nothing				all, correctly property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

"Sir" should be "Sur"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sir	punct
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Sur	nmod:desc
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sir	punct
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 Sur	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 Sur	cop
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Sur	punct
7	Sur	Sur	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Sur	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	should		Sur				Sir nmod:desc	tree rules

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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