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# Test 10 · ★ · Word classes: the jobs words do

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Mum shouts, «Proper noun, love, capital letter!» Which words need capitals in «tom went to paris on tuesday»?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum, words, tom · **What happens:** shout, need, go · **To what, where:** Proper noun, capitals, paris

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 27 «Word classes: the jobs words do» 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/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum shouts, «Proper noun, love, capital letter!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do:t10:1
# text = Mum shouts, «Proper noun, love, capital letter!»
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Mum | Proper noun and capital letter |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noun=Topic |

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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:* Which words need capitals in «tom went to paris on tuesday»?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do:t10:2
# text = Which words need capitals in «tom went to paris on tuesday»?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	tom	tom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | which words | capitals |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot capital=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | past | tom |  |  | paris | tuesday |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to paris=Initial\_Location |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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All of the words

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do:t10:o1:1
# text = All of the words
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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went and to

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do:t10:o2:1
# text = went and to
1	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	1	cc	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only tom, at the start

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do:t10:o3:1
# text = Only tom, at the start
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	tom	tom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Tom, Paris and Tuesday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do:t10:o4:1
# text = Tom, Paris and Tuesday
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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