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title: Select the principal limitation of automated spelling correction. — Editing and redrafting · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the principal limitation of automated spelling correction. Exam question 3 of lesson 43 «Editing and redrafting» 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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# Exam question 3 · Editing and redrafting

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Select the principal limitation of automated spelling correction.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** select, limit · **To what, where:** principal limitation, automated spelling correction

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 43 «Editing and redrafting» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/43-editing-and-redrafting/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:43-editing-and-redrafting:e3:1
# text = Select the principal limitation of automated spelling correction.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	limitation	limitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	automated	automated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	correction	correction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal limitation of automated spelling correction |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limitation=Theme |
| 2 | **limit** |  |  | automated spelling correction |  |  |  |  | nom limitation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It functions only in the morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:43-editing-and-redrafting:e3:o1:1
# text = It functions only in the morning
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	functions	function	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **function** | present | It |  |  |  | morning |  | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It cannot recognise any English words

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:43-editing-and-redrafting:e3:o2:1
# text = It cannot recognise any English words
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **recognise** | can | It | any English words |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It misses correctly spelt words used in error

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:43-editing-and-redrafting:e3:o3:1
# text = It misses correctly spelt words used in error
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	misses	miss	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	spelt	spelt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | present | It | spelt words |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **spelt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | correctly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | participle |  | spelt words *not said here* |  | error |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It alters every word that is longer than five letters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:43-editing-and-redrafting:e3:o4:1
# text = It alters every word that is longer than five letters
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	alters	alter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	appos	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **alter** | present | It | every word |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | than five letters; long *property* | tree rules |

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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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