--- title: ★★★ Grace can read 20 tricky words but spell only 12. How many can s… — Tricky words and common exception words · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Grace can read 20 tricky words but spell only 12. How many can she read but not yet spell? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 3 «Tricky words and common exception words» 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 w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Tricky words and common exception words](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Tricky words and common exception words ★★★ Grace can read 20 tricky words but spell only 12. How many can she read but not yet spell? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★ ★, ★ · **What happens:** read, spell, not spell · **To what, where:** 20 tricky words, 12, many This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 3 «Tricky words and common exception words» 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/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ Grace can read 20 tricky words but spell only 12. ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words:t11:1 # text = ★★★ Grace can read 20 tricky words but spell only 12. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Grace Grace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 tricky tricky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 spell spell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 only only ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | can | ★ ★ ★ Grace | 20 tricky words | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 2 | **spell** | present | ★ ★ ★ Grace *not said here* | 12 | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent 12=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. *Sentence 2:* How many can she read but not yet spell? ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words:t11:2 # text = How many can she read but not yet spell? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 yet yet ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 spell spell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | can | ★ | many | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic | | 2 | **not** **spell** | infinitive | ★ *not said here* | | | | yet | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} 8 ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words:t11:o1:1 # text = 8 1 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 12 ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words:t11:o2:1 # text = 12 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 32 ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words:t11:o3:1 # text = 32 1 32 32 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 20 ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words:t11:o4:1 # text = 20 1 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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