Test 9 · Homophones: words that sound the same
Tom says there can only be two homophones for one sound. Which shows he's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: say, be, show · To what, where: two homophones · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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: Tom says there can only be two homophones for one sound.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 says | advmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 homophones | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 homophones | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 homophones | cop |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 homophones | nummod |
| 8 | homophones | homophone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 says | ccomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 sound | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 sound | nummod |
| 11 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 homophones | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Tom | there | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | can | two homophones | for one sound | 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: Which shows he's wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wrong | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrong | cop |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shows | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | Tom | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Knight and day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 day | cc |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Knight | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Write, right, rite and wright
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Write | write | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Write | punct |
| 3 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 1 Write | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rite | punct |
| 5 | rite | rite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Write | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wright | cc |
| 7 | wright | wright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rite | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | imperative | you not said here | rite and wright | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Cat and hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hat | cc |
| 3 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cat | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Sun and moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 moon | cc |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sun | conj |
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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