--- title: Grace says "scissors is sharp". Which is the usual form? — Nouns: the names of things, people, pl… · tree and pragmatics description: Grace says "scissors is sharp". Which is the usual form? Test 10 of lesson 2 «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» 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/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/t10/) [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/) / [Nouns: the names of things, people, pl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/) / t10 # Test 10 · Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas Grace says "scissors is sharp". Which is the usual form? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Grace, scissors · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** usual form · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 of lesson 2 «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» 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/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Grace says "scissors is sharp". ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas:t10:1 # text = Grace says "scissors is sharp". 1 Grace Grace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Grace | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | scissors | | | | | sharp *property* | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which is the usual form? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas:t10:2 # text = Which is the usual form? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | the usual form | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} The scissors are sharp ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas:t10:o1:1 # text = The scissors are sharp 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the scissors | | | | | sharp *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} The scissor are sharp ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas:t10:o2:1 # text = The scissor are sharp 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 scissor scissor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the scissor | | | | | sharp *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} The scissors is sharp ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas:t10:o3:1 # text = The scissors is sharp 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the scissors | | | | | sharp *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} The scissor is sharps ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas:t10:o4:1 # text = The scissor is sharps 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 scissor scissor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 sharps sharp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the scissor | sharps | | | | | tree rules | **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. 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