Test 8 · ★ · Dates and birthdays
Isla's teacher says, "Grand, but which month?" ("Grand" means good.) Which is a full answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, Grand · What happens: say, mean, be · To what, where: Grand, full answer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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: Isla's teacher says, "Grand, but which month?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Isla | Isla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Isla | case |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Grand | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Grand | punct |
| 7 | Grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 month | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 month | cc |
| 10 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 11 month | det |
| 11 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Grand | parataxis |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 Grand | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Grand | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Isla's teacher | Grand | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grand=Topic |
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: ("Grand" means good.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Grand | punct |
| 3 | Grand | Grand | PROPN | _ | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Grand | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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 | Grand | good property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: Which is a full answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 answer | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a full answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
C'est le octobre quatorze.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C'est | C'est | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 quatorze | dep |
| 2 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 quatorze | compound |
| 3 | octobre | octobre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quatorze | compound |
| 4 | quatorze | quatorze | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 quatorze | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
C'est quatorze.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C'est | c' | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 quatorze | amod |
| 2 | quatorze | quatorze | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quatorze | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
C'est le quatorze octobre.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C'est | C'est | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 octobre | compound |
| 2 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 octobre | det |
| 3 | quatorze | quatorze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 octobre | compound |
| 4 | octobre | octobre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 octobre | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
C'est le quatorzième.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C'est | C'est | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 quatorzième | dep |
| 2 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 quatorzième | compound |
| 3 | quatorzième | quatorzième | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 quatorzième | 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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