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title: ★★★ How many of these are spelled correctly: happiness, basically, c… — Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ How many of these are spelled correctly: happiness, basically, carefull, humorous, argument? Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 9 «Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment

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★★★ How many of these are spelled correctly: happiness, basically, carefull, humorous, argument?

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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 11 · ★★★ of lesson 9 «Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment» 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/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment:t11:1
# text = ★★★ How many of these are spelled correctly: happiness, basically, carefull, humorous, argument?
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	spelled	spell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	basically	basically	ADV	RB	_	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	carefull	carefull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	humorous	humorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spell** | present · passive |  | ★ |  |  |  | happiness and carefull and argument *obl*; 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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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment:t11:o1:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment:t11:o2:1
# text = 5
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment:t11:o3:1
# text = 2
1	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment:t11:o4:1
# text = 3
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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