Test 12 · ★★★ · Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Hu…
«'Stute» drops letters from the front of the word. Which of these drops letters from the front too?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Stute · What happens: drop · To what, where: letters, front
This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo» 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: «'Stute» drops letters from the front of the word.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 Stute | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Stute | punct |
| 3 | Stute | Stute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 drops | nsubj |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 Stute | punct |
| 5 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drops | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 front | det |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drops | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 word | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 word | det |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 front | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drops | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | Stute | letters | the front of the word | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme from front=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: Which of these drops letters from the front too?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 letters | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 letters | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 letters | det |
| 4 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 letters | compound |
| 5 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 front | det |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 letters | nmod |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 letters | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 letters | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Maths, from mathematics
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mathematics | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 mathematics | case |
| 4 | mathematics | mathematics | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Maths | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Exam, from examination
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exam | exam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 examination | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 examination | case |
| 4 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Exam | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Bus, from omnibus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 omnibus | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 omnibus | case |
| 4 | omnibus | omnibus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bus | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Gym, from gymnasium
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gym | gym | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gymnasium | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 gymnasium | case |
| 4 | gymnasium | gymnasium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gym | 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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