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Test 3 · ★ · Dates and birthdays

The teacher tells Ava, "Use vous, cheeky." Why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: teacher · What happens: tell, use · To what, where: Ava, vous · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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: The teacher tells Ava, "Use vous, cheeky."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tells	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Use	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Use	punct
7	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	parataxis
8	vous	vous	X	Foreign=Yes	7 Use	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cheeky	punct
10	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Use	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the teacher		Ava				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent ava=Recipient clause=Topic
2	use in a quote	infinitive		vous					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vous=Patient

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Ava should have spoken English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spoken	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 spoken	aux
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spoken	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	should · perfect · passive		Ava					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ava said ton to a teacher; votre is polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 teacher	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 teacher	det
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 polite	punct
8	votre	votre	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 polite	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 polite	cop
10	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ava	ton	a teacher				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ton=Topic to teacher=Recipient
2	is	present	votre					polite property	tree rules

Option 3

Ava said the wrong month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 month	det
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 month	amod
5	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ava				month		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Teachers don't have birthdays in France

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 France	case
7	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present · do-support	Teachers	birthdays		France			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Patient

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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