Test 11 · ★ · Dates and birthdays
★★★ Mia's birthday is le premier mars. Her brother's is exactly one week later. How do you say his birthday?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, you · What happens: be, say · To what, where: le premier mars, one week, birthday · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 11 «Dates and birthdays» 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: ★★★ Mia's birthday is le premier mars.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mars | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 4 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Mia | case |
| 6 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mars | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mars | cop |
| 8 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mars | compound |
| 9 | premier | premier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mars | compound |
| 10 | mars | mar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 mars | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ★ | le premier mars | 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: Her brother's is exactly one week later.
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 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 week | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 brother | case |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 week | cop |
| 5 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 7 week | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 week | nummod |
| 7 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 week | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 week | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ★'s brother's one week | exactly, late property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: How do you say his birthday?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 say | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 6 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | you | Mia's birthday | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent birthday=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
le huit mars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 huit | flat:foreign |
| 2 | huit | huit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | mars | mars | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 huit | dep |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
le premier mars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 premier | det |
| 2 | premier | premier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | mars | mars | PUNCT | _ | 2 premier | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
le neuf mars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 neuf | det |
| 2 | neuf | neuf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | mars | mars | PUNCT | _ | 2 neuf | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
le sept mars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sept | det |
| 2 | sept | sept | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | mars | mars | PUNCT | _ | 2 sept | 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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