Test 8 · ★★ · Telling the time
Olivia in Melbourne asks, "Arvo's not a thing in French?" ("Arvo" means afternoon.) At 3 pm, what should she say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Olivia, Arvo · What happens: ask, not be, mean, say · To what, where: thing, French, 3 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Olivia in Melbourne asks, "Arvo's not a thing in French?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Olivia | Olivia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Melbourne | case |
| 3 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Olivia | nmod |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thing | punct |
| 7 | Arvo | Arvo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thing | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 thing | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 thing | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thing | det |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 French | case |
| 13 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thing | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 thing | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Olivia in Melbourne | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | Arvo | a thing | French | tree rules |
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: ("Arvo" means afternoon.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Arvo | punct |
| 3 | Arvo | Arvo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Arvo | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 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 | Arvo | afternoon | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: At 3 pm, what should she say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 3 | case |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 say | obl |
| 3 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 3 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 say | obj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | aux |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | Arvo | 3 pm | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
le matin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 matin | det |
| 2 | matin | matin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
la nuit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | nuit | nuit | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 la | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
le soir
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soir | det |
| 2 | soir | soir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
l'après-midi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | l'après | l'après | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midi | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 l'après | punct |
| 3 | midi | midi | 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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