Test 9 · Days of the week and months
Daniel says, "Aujourd'hui is so long it's tamping." ("Tamping" means fuming.) What did aujourd'hui once mean word for word?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Daniel, Aujourd'hui, Tamping · What happens: say, be, mean, fume, do · To what, where: tamping, mean word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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: Daniel says, "Aujourd'hui is so long it's tamping."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel | Daniel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tamping | punct |
| 5 | Aujourd'hui | Aujourd'hui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tamping | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tamping | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 tamping | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tamping | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tamping | cop |
| 11 | tamping | tamping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tamping | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tamping | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Daniel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Aujourd'hui | tamping | long 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: ("Tamping" means fuming.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tamping | punct |
| 3 | Tamping | tamping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tamping | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fuming | fume | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Tamping | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fume not said to happen | gerund | Tamping not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Sentence 3: What did aujourd'hui once mean word for word?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | aujourd'hui | aujourd'hui | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 mean | advmod |
| 5 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 word | amod |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 word | case |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 word | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | mean word | for word; aujourd'hui property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
on the day of today
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 today | case |
| 5 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the day after
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 after | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
all of the day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 all | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
today is a good day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 day | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | today | a good day | 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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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