Exam question 3 · Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes

Ascertain the form consistent with standard English for the sentence "I have ___ two lengths of the pool" (verb: swim).

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, I · What happens: ascertain, have, swim · To what, where: form · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 9 «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 form	det
3	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 English	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 English	case
6	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 English	amod
7	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 sentence	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sentence	det
10	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	parataxis
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 lengths	punct
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 lengths	nummod
18	lengths	length	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 pool	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pool	det
21	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lengths	nmod
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 pool	punct
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 verb	punct
24	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pool	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 swim	punct
26	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 verb	parataxis
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 verb	punct
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the form	for the sentence; two lengths of the pool and verb obl	tree rules
2	have in a quote	present	I			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	swim	infinitive				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

swimming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

swum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swum	swum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

swam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swam	swam	PUNCT	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

swimmed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swimmed	swimm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swimm	participle							tree rules

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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