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Test 5 · ★ · Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds

Your little sis writes "hopefull" in her story. What do you tell her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little sis, you · What happens: write, tell · To what, where: hopefull, story, sis · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 37 «Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds» 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 little sis writes "hopefull" in her story.

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 sis	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sis	amod
3	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 writes	nsubj
4	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hopefull	punct
6	hopefull	hopefull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 writes	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hopefull	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 story	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 story	nmod:poss
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 writes	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	Your little sis	hopefull		sis's story			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hopefull=Theme in story=Destination

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 do you tell her?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	you		sis				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It should be "hopeless" instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hopeless	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hopeless	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 hopeless	cop
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hopeless	punct
5	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hopeless	punct
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 hopeless	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	should	It					hopeless, instead property	tree rules

Option 2

Both l's are right, keep it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 l	det
2	l	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 right	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 l	case
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 right	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	both l					right property	tree rules
2	keep	infinitive		l					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

It needs a third l: "hopefulll"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 l	det
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 l	amod
5	l	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 hopefulll	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 hopefulll	punct
8	hopefulll	hopefulll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 l	appos
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 hopefulll	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	It	a third l					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot l=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The suffix "-ful" has only one l

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 suffix	det
2	suffix	suffix	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 ful	punct
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ful	punct
5	ful	ful	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 suffix	appos
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 ful	punct
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 l	nummod
10	l	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the suffix	one l					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent l=Patient

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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