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Test 6 · ★★ · Telling the time

Lily asks, "Is midi like a skirt?" when her penpal says "Il est midi !" What does it mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lily, penpal, midi · What happens: ask, be, say, mean · To what, where: midi · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 12 «Telling the time» 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: Lily asks, "Is midi like a skirt?" when her penpal says "Il est midi !"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 midi	punct
5	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 midi	cop
6	midi	midi	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asks	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 skirt	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 skirt	det
9	skirt	skirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 midi	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 says	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 penpal	nmod:poss
14	penpal	penpal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 says	nsubj
15	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 est	advcl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Il	punct
17	Il	Il	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 est	nsubj
18	est	est	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 asks	parataxis
19	midi	midi	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 est	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 est	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Lily						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present		midi				like a skirt	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	Lily's penpal						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 does it mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It's 12 noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 noon	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 noon	cop
3	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 noon	nummod
4	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	12 noon					tree rules

Option 2

It's half past twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 twelve	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 twelve	cop
3	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 twelve	advmod
4	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 twelve	amod
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	past twelve				half property	tree rules

Option 3

It's a skirt time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 time	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	skirt	skirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	compound
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a skirt time					tree rules

Option 4

It's midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 midnight	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 midnight	cop
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	midnight					tree rules

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