--- title: Puzzle: which -ough word rhymes with "off"? — Silent letters and the mystery of -ough · tree and pragmatics description: Puzzle: which -ough word rhymes with "off"? Test 11 of lesson 13 «Silent letters and the mystery of -ough» 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/13-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough/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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / [Silent letters and the mystery of -ough](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/13-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough/) / t11 # Test 11 · Silent letters and the mystery of -ough Puzzle: which -ough word rhymes with "off"? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ough word · **What happens:** rhyme · **To what, where:** Puzzle This is test 11 of lesson 13 «Silent letters and the mystery of -ough» of the language 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/language/13-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:13-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough:t11:1 # text = Puzzle: which -ough word rhymes with "off"? 1 Puzzle puzzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 3 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 obj _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ough ough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 rhymes rhyme VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 off off NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rhyme** | present | ough word | Puzzle | | | | with off | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent which=Patient with off=Co-Patient | 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} cough ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:13-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough:t11:o1:1 # text = cough 1 cough cough NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} though ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:13-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough:t11:o2:1 # text = though 1 though though ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} through ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:13-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough:t11:o3:1 # text = through 1 through through ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} bough ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:13-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough:t11:o4:1 # text = bough 1 bough bough NOUN NN Number=Sing 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. Elamur Cosmic License. - ← previous: [Silent letters and the mystery of -ough, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/13-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough/t10/) - next →: [Silent letters and the mystery of -ough, exam 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/13-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough/e1/) - ↑ back to [Silent letters and the mystery of -ough](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/13-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough/)