Test 12 · ★ · Dates and birthdays
★★★ An American penpal writes 12/04 for her birthday, month first. How should a French friend say it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, French friend · What happens: write, say · To what, where: 12/04, penpal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ 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: ★★★ An American penpal writes 12/04 for her birthday, month first.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 writes | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 6 penpal | case |
| 4 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 penpal | det |
| 5 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 penpal | amod |
| 6 | penpal | penpal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | 12/04 | 12/04 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 writes | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 birthday | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 11 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 writes | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 month | punct |
| 13 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 birthday | conj |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 month | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 writes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | ★ ★ a American penpal | 12/04 | for ★'s birthday and month | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent 12/04=Result for birthday=Beneficiary |
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: How should a French friend say it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 say | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 4 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friend | amod |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 say | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | a French friend | penpal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
le quatre décembre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 décembre | det |
| 2 | quatre | quatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 décembre | compound |
| 3 | décembre | décembre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
le quatre avril
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 avril | det |
| 2 | quatre | quatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 avril | compound |
| 3 | avril | avril | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
le douze avril
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 avril | det |
| 2 | douze | douze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 avril | compound |
| 3 | avril | avril | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
le premier décembre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 décembre | det |
| 2 | premier | premier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 décembre | compound |
| 3 | décembre | décembre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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