Test 8 · Homophones: words that sound the same
Your Aussie mate texts "gonna by heaps of lollies this arvo." ("Arvo" means afternoon, "lollies" means sweets.) What word should be "buy"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aussie mate, Arvo, lollies, word · What happens: text, mean, be · To what, where: gonna, sweets, buy
This is test 8 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: Your Aussie mate texts "gonna by heaps of lollies this arvo."
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 | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Aussie | aussie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | compound |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 texts | nsubj |
| 4 | texts | text | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 gonna | punct |
| 6 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 texts | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 heaps | case |
| 8 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 texts | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 lollies | case |
| 10 | lollies | lolly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 heaps | nmod |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 arvo | det |
| 12 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 texts | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 texts | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 texts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | text | present | Your Aussie mate | gonna | by heaps of lollies | 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: ("Arvo" means afternoon, "lollies" means sweets.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Arvo | punct |
| 3 | Arvo | Arvo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Arvo | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lollies | punct |
| 9 | lollies | lolly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 means | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lollies | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | conj |
| 12 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 means | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Arvo | afternoon | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | lollies | sweets | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Topic |
Sentence 3: What word should be "buy"?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buy | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 buy | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 buy | cop |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
| 6 | buy | buy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | should | what word | buy | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Gonna
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gonna | Gonna | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Heaps
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
By
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Lollies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lollies | lolly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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