Exam question 1 · Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds
Identify the constituent parts of the word "unhappiness".
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: constituent parts
This is exam question 1 of lesson 37 «Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds» 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 parts | det |
| 3 | constituent | constituent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 parts | compound |
| 4 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 word | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 parts | nmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 unhappiness | punct |
| 9 | unhappiness | unhappiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | appos |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 unhappiness | punct |
| 11 | . | . | 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 constituent parts of the word | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent part=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
A prefix, a root and a suffix
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 prefix | det |
| 2 | prefix | prefix | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 root | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 root | det |
| 5 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prefix | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 suffix | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 suffix | det |
| 8 | suffix | suffix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prefix | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Two roots and no affixes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 roots | nummod |
| 2 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 affixes | cc |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 affixes | det |
| 5 | affixes | affix | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 roots | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Three separate prefixes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 prefixes | nummod |
| 2 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prefixes | amod |
| 3 | prefixes | prefix | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A suffix, a prefix and a second suffix
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 suffix | det |
| 2 | suffix | suffix | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 prefix | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prefix | det |
| 5 | prefix | prefix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 suffix | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 suffix | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 suffix | det |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 suffix | amod |
| 9 | suffix | suffix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 suffix | 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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