--- title: ★★★ How many words in this list have the /oa/ sound: boat, cow, snow… — Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosi… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ How many words in this list have the /oa/ sound: boat, cow, snow, home, shout? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 4 «Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling» 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/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/) / [Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling ★★★ How many words in this list have the /oa/ sound: boat, cow, snow, home, shout? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** have, shout · **To what, where:** oa sound This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 4 «Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling» 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/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling:t11:1 # text = ★★★ How many words in this list have the /oa/ sound: boat, cow, snow, home, shout? 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 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 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 / / SYM SYM _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 oa oa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 / / PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 shout shout VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | ★ | the oa sound and boat and cow and snow and home | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient | | 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | ★ *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling:t11:o1:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling:t11:o2:1 # text = 2 1 2 2 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 5 ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling:t11:o3:1 # text = 5 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 4 ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling:t11:o4:1 # text = 4 1 4 4 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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