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title: ★★★ How many sounds are there in «chips»? Careful! — Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 ch… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ How many sounds are there in «chips»? Careful! Test 10 of lesson 2 «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 10 · Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check

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★★★ How many sounds are there in «chips»? Careful!

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** chips

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This is test 10 of lesson 2 «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» 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/2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ How many sounds are there in «chips»?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check:t10:1
# text = ★★★ How many sounds are there in «chips»?
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | ★ |  |  | chips |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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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:* Careful!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check:t10:2
# text = Careful!
1	Careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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4: ch, i, p, s

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check:t10:o1:1
# text = 4: ch, i, p, s
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	ch	ch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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6: c, h, i, p, s and a silent e

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check:t10:o2:1
# text = 6: c, h, i, p, s and a silent e
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	h	H	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **p** |  | i |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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3: chi, p, s

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check:t10:o3:1
# text = 3: chi, p, s
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	chi	chi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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5: c, h, i, p, s

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check:t10:o4:1
# text = 5: c, h, i, p, s
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	h	H	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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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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