Test 7 · Days of the week and months
Jacob writes "dans mai". His teacher writes "en mai". He goes, "Y'all have a special word for that?" Which is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jacob, teacher, Y'all · What happens: write, go, have, be · To what, where: dans mai, en, special word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 of lesson 10 «Days of the week and months» of the French 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
Sentence 1: Jacob writes "dans mai".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 writes | nsubj |
| 2 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mai | punct |
| 4 | dans | dans | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 mai | flat:foreign |
| 5 | mai | mai | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 writes | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mai | punct |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 writes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | Jacob | dans mai | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mai=Theme |
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: His teacher writes "en mai".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 writes | nsubj |
| 3 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 en | punct |
| 5 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 writes | obj |
| 6 | mai | mai | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 en | dep |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 en | punct |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 writes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | Jacob's teacher | en | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme |
Sentence 3: He goes, "Y'all have a special word for that?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 5 | Y'all | y'all | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 goes | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 word | det |
| 8 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 word | amod |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 word | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | teacher | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Y'all | a special word | for that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
Sentence 4: Which is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
à le mai
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | à | à | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 à | flat:foreign |
| 3 | mai | mai | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 à | dep |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
en le mai
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | en | en | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 en | flat:foreign |
| 3 | mai | mai | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 en | dep |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
en mai, or au mois de mai
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | en | en | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | mai | mai | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 en | dep |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mois | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 mois | cc |
| 5 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mois | compound |
| 6 | mois | mois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 en | conj |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 mois | flat:foreign |
| 8 | mai | mai | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 mois | dep |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
dans le mai
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dans | dans | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 dans | flat:foreign |
| 3 | mai | mai | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 dans | dep |
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.
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