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Test 9 · ★★ · Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes

A British teacher marks "dove" wrong in an American boy's story. Is that fair?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: that · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» 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: A British teacher marks "dove" wrong in an American boy's story.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 marks	det
2	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 marks	amod
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marks	compound
4	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wrong	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 dove	punct
6	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrong	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 dove	punct
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	14 story	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
11	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 story	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 boy	case
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrong	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wrong	punct

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

Sentence 2: Is that fair?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fair	cop
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 fair	nsubj
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					fair property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, it's a spelling mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 mistake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mistake	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mistake	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mistake	det
6	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mistake	compound
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It's correct in American English, so it's a country difference

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	3 correct	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 correct	cop
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 English	case
5	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 English	amod
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 correct	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 difference	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 difference	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 difference	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 difference	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 difference	det
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 difference	compound
13	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 correct	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			American English		correct property	tree rules
2	is a	present	it	a country difference					tree rules

Option 3

No, dove is the only correct form everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 form	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 form	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 form	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 form	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 form	amod
7	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 form	amod
8	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 form	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	dove	the only correct form				everywhere property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, because dove is only a bird, never a verb in English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 bird	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bird	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 bird	mark
4	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bird	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 bird	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 verb	punct
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 verb	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 verb	det
12	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 English	case
14	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 verb	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	dove	a bird and a verb in English					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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