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title: ★★★ Which word is spelled correctly? — Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and drop… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Which word is spelled correctly? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» 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 · ★★ · Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e

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★★★ Which word is spelled correctly?

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

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» 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/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e:t10:1
# text = ★★★ Which word is spelled correctly?
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	spelled	spell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spell** | present · passive |  | ★ ★ ★ |  |  |  | correctly *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme |

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

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forgetting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e:t10:o1:1
# text = forgetting
1	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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forgeting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e:t10:o2:1
# text = forgeting
1	forgeting	forgeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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foregetting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e:t10:o3:1
# text = foregetting
1	foregetting	foregett	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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forgetteing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e:t10:o4:1
# text = forgetteing
1	forgetteing	forgette	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forgette** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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