Test 11 · ★ · Sicilian Stories, Catherine and Her Destiny, part 30: Cath…
Did the barber really say something French?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: barber · What happens: do, say · To what, where: barber, something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1641 «Sicilian Stories, Catherine and Her Destiny, part 30: Catherine gets a silken ball from her Destiny's sister» of the books 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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 barber | det |
| 3 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 barber | acl |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 say | obj |
| 7 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 something | amod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the barber | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barber=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | the barber not said here | something | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
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
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, il faut souffrir pour etre belle, lol, and then he said it again louder for the whole room
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 pour | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 souffrir | punct |
| 3 | il | il | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 souffrir | nsubj |
| 4 | faut | faut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 souffrir | compound |
| 5 | souffrir | souffrir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pour | obl |
| 6 | pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | etre | etre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 belle | compound |
| 8 | belle | belle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pour | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pour | punct |
| 10 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 6 pour | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 said | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pour | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | obj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 louder | advmod |
| 18 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 room | det |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 room | amod |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 louder | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | souffrir | il | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | pour | present | etre belle | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belle=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | he | belle | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Option 2
Nah, il faut boire pour etre belle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 pour | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 boire | punct |
| 3 | il | il | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 boire | nsubj |
| 4 | faut | faut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boire | compound |
| 5 | boire | boire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pour | obl |
| 6 | pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | etre | etre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 belle | compound |
| 8 | belle | belle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pour | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boire | il | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | pour | present | etre belle | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belle=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, il faut souffrir pour etre belle, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 pour | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 souffrir | punct |
| 3 | il | il | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 souffrir | nsubj |
| 4 | faut | faut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 souffrir | compound |
| 5 | souffrir | souffrir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pour | obl |
| 6 | pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | etre | etre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 belle | compound |
| 8 | belle | belle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pour | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pour | punct |
| 10 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 6 pour | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | souffrir | il | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | pour | present | etre belle | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belle=Patient |
Option 4
Yeah, il faut souffrir pour etre riche
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 pour | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 souffrir | punct |
| 3 | il | il | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 souffrir | nsubj |
| 4 | faut | faut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 souffrir | compound |
| 5 | souffrir | souffrir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pour | obl |
| 6 | pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | etre | etre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 riche | compound |
| 8 | riche | riche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pour | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | souffrir | il | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | pour | present | etre riche | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riche=Patient |
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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