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description: ★★★ Lucas learns 5 new words a night, Monday to Thursday, and on Friday reviews them all. How many words does he review on Friday? Test 10 of lesson 15 «How to learn spellings that stick» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 10 · How to learn spellings that stick

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★★★ Lucas learns 5 new words a night, Monday to Thursday, and on Friday reviews them all. How many words does he review on Friday?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, many words · **What happens:** learn, review · **To what, where:** 5 new words, words

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This is test 10 of lesson 15 «How to learn spellings that stick» of the English 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Lucas learns 5 new words a night, Monday to Thursday, and on Friday reviews them all.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t10:1
# text = ★★★ Lucas learns 5 new words a night, Monday to Thursday, and on Friday reviews them all.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Lucas	Lucas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	learns	learn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
19	reviews	review	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | present | ★ ★ Lucas | 5 new words  a night |  |  | thursday |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **review** | present | ★ ★ Lucas *not said here* | words *= word* |  |  | friday |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How many words does he review on Friday?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t10:2
# text = How many words does he review on Friday?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	review	review	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **review** | present · do-support | many words |  |  |  | friday |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t10:o1:1
# text = 5
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t10:o2:1
# text = 20
1	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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25

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t10:o3:1
# text = 25
1	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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15

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t10:o4:1
# text = 15
1	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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