Test 8 · Days of the week and months
Poppy answers "Le chat" when asked the day. Her friend whispers, "Not chat, day!" What would a French kid say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Poppy, friend, French kid · What happens: answer, ask, whisper, say · To what, where: Le chat, chat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 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: Poppy answers "Le chat" when asked the day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poppy | Poppy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answers | nsubj |
| 2 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 chat | punct |
| 4 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chat | compound |
| 5 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answers | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 chat | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 asked | advmod |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 answers | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | present | Poppy | Le chat | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent chat=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | participle | Poppy not said here | day | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: Her friend whispers, "Not chat, day!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whispers | nsubj |
| 3 | whispers | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 whispers | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 chat | punct |
| 6 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 chat | advmod |
| 7 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whispers | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chat | conj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 chat | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 chat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | present | Poppy's friend | chat and day | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: What would a French kid say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 say | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kid | det |
| 4 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kid | amod |
| 5 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | a French kid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
On est mardi.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 mardi | case |
| 2 | est | est | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 mardi | flat:foreign |
| 3 | mardi | mardi | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mardi | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
C'est jour mardi.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C'est | C'est | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 mardi | dep |
| 2 | jour | jour | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 C'est | flat:foreign |
| 3 | mardi | mardi | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mardi | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Il fait mardi.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Il | Il | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 fait | nsubj |
| 2 | fait | fait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mardi | mardi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fait | obj |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fait | present | Il | mardi | tree rules |
Option 4
Je suis mardi.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | mardi | mardi | NOUN | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Je | punct |
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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