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title: Ascertain the correctly punctuated notice. — Plurals that make no sense: mice, shee… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the correctly punctuated notice. Exam question 3 of lesson 10 «Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 3 · Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese

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Ascertain the correctly punctuated notice.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, punctuate · **To what, where:** punctuated notice

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 10 «Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese» of the language 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/language/10-plurals-mice-sheep-and-geese/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:10-plurals-mice-sheep-and-geese:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the correctly punctuated notice.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	punctuated	punctuate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the punctuated notice |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Topic |
| 2 | **punctuate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | correctly *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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Tomato's 50p

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:10-plurals-mice-sheep-and-geese:e3:o1:1
# text = Tomato's 50p
1	Tomato	Tomato	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tomatoes' 50p

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:10-plurals-mice-sheep-and-geese:e3:o2:1
# text = Tomatoes' 50p
1	Tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Tomatoes 50p

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:10-plurals-mice-sheep-and-geese:e3:o3:1
# text = Tomatoes 50p
1	Tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tomatoe's 50p

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:10-plurals-mice-sheep-and-geese:e3:o4:1
# text = Tomatoe's 50p
1	Tomatoe	Tomatoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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