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Test 1 · ★ · Weather and seasons

It's chucking it down in Manchester ("chucking it down" means raining hard) and Ellie says "Il est rain." The class laughs. What should she say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: It, Ellie, class · What happens: chuck down, mean, rain, say, laugh · To what, where: it, Manchester, Il rain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 13 «Weather and seasons» 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: It's chucking it down in Manchester ("chucking it down" means raining hard) and Ellie says "Il est rain."

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 chucking	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chucking	aux
3	chucking	chuck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 means	nsubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chucking	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 chucking	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Manchester	case
7	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chucking	obl
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 chucking	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 chucking	punct
10	chucking	chuck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 chucking	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chucking	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	10 chucking	compound:prt
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 chucking	punct
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	raining	rain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 means	xcomp
16	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 raining	advmod
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 raining	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 says	cc
19	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 says	nsubj
20	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 means	conj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Il	punct
22	Il	Il	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 rain	compound
23	est	EST	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Il	flat
24	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 says	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck down	present · progressive	It	it		Manchester			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in manchester=Destination
2	chuck down in a quote	gerund		it					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	rain not said to happen	gerund						hard property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
5	say speech: assert	present	Ellie	Il rain					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rain=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: The class laughs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 class	det
2	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughs	nsubj
3	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	the class						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What should she say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	class						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

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

Il pleut.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Il	Il	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	pleut	pleut	X	_	1 Il	flat:foreign
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Il	punct

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

Option 2

Il fait pluie.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Il	Il	X	Foreign=Yes	2 fait	nsubj
2	fait	fait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pluie	pluie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fait	obj
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fait	present	Il	pluie					tree rules

Option 3

Il y a pleut.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Il	Il	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 y	nsubj
2	y	y	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pleut	det
4	pleut	pleut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 y	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 y	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	y	past	Il	a pleut					tree rules

Option 4

Il est pleut.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Il	Il	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	est	est	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Il	flat:foreign
3	pleut	pleut	X	_	1 Il	flat:foreign
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Il	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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