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Test 9 · ★ · Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds

Your mate makes "misunderstand" and asks what "mis-" adds. What's the answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, mis, answer · What happens: make, misunderstand, ask, add, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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 mate makes "misunderstand" and asks what "mis-" adds.

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	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 misunderstand	punct
5	misunderstand	misunderstand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 misunderstand	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asks	cc
8	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	conj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 adds	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 mis	punct
11	mis	mis	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 adds	nsubj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 mis	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 mis	punct
14	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asks	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Your mate						tree rules
2	misunderstand in a quote	infinitive	Your mate not said here						vn comprehend-87.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer
3	ask speech: ask	present	Your mate not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	add speech: assert	present	mis						vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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 the answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 answer	det
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Again: to understand twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Again	again	ADV	_	4 understand	advmod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 understand	mark
4	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 understand	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	to-infinitive					again	twice property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Not at all: to never hear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 all	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct
5	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 hear	advmod
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 all	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	to-infinitive							vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Wrongly: to understand wrongly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrongly	wrongly	ADV	_	4 understand	advmod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 understand	mark
4	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	_	4 understand	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	to-infinitive						wrongly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Before: to understand early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 understand	mark
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Before	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 understand	mark
4	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 understand	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	to-infinitive						early property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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