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Test 9 · ★ · Dates and birthdays

Ethan asks, "Is he boasting about his tea?" when a boy says "J'ai eu dix ans hier !" What did the boy mean?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ethan, boy · What happens: ask, boast, say, mean · To what, where: J'ai · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Ethan asks, "Is he boasting about his tea?" when a boy says "J'ai eu dix ans hier !"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boasting	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 boasting	punct
5	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 boasting	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 boasting	nsubj
7	boasting	boast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 asks	ccomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 tea	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tea	nmod:poss
10	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boasting	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 tea	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 tea	punct
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 says	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 says	nsubj
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 boasting	advcl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 J'ai	punct
18	J'ai	J'ai	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 says	obj
19	eu	eu	X	_	20 dix	compound
20	dix	dix	X	Foreign=Yes	18 J'ai	flat:foreign
21	ans	ans	X	Foreign=Yes	22 hier	flat:foreign
22	hier	hier	X	_	18 J'ai	conj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 J'ai	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 boasting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Ethan						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	boast speech: other in a quote	present · progressive	Ethan					about Ethan's tea	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about tea=Topic
3	say speech: assert	present	a boy	J'ai					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent j'ai=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: What did the boy mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past · do-support	the boy						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

He ate ten things yesterday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 things	nummod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj
5	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He	ten things			yesterday		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

Option 2

He has had ten teas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 had	aux
3	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 teas	nummod
5	teas	tea	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	He	ten teas					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient

Option 3

He's ten days old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 old	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 old	obl:unmarked
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He				day	old property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He turned ten yesterday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 turned	obj
4	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	He	ten			yesterday		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ten=Theme

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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