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Test 11 · ★ · Weather and seasons

Mason guesses il fait beau means "wicked handsome weather". ("Wicked" means very.) What does it really mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mason, il, beau, Wicked · What happens: guess, fait, mean · To what, where: wicked handsome weather · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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: Mason guesses il fait beau means "wicked handsome weather".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mason	Mason	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 guesses	nsubj
2	guesses	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	il	IL	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fait	nsubj
4	fait	fait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 guesses	xcomp
5	beau	beau	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 guesses	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 weather	punct
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weather	amod
9	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weather	amod
10	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 weather	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 guesses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present	Mason						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fait	infinitive	il						tree rules
3	mean	present	beau	wicked handsome weather					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=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: ("Wicked" means very.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Wicked	punct
3	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Wicked	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	very	very	ADV	_	5 means	advmod
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	Wicked						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What does it really mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 mean	advmod
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	present · do-support	Wicked						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

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

The weather is sunny and nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weather	det
2	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sunny	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sunny	cop
4	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nice	cc
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sunny	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the weather					sunny property	tree rules
2	be		the weather not said here						tree rules

Option 2

The weather is good-looking people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weather	det
2	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 looking	aux
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looking	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 looking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · progressive	the weather	people					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme people=Attribute

Option 3

It's a bit cold

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 cold	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cold	obl:unmarked
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					a bit obl:unmarked; cold property	tree rules

Option 4

A storm is coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 storm	det
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coming	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 coming	aux
4	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · progressive	a storm						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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