Test 12 · ★ · Weather and seasons

★★★ It's July in Paris and in Sydney on the same day. Which pair of sentences fits best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: It, pair · What happens: be, fit · To what, where: Paris

This is test 12 · ★ 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 July in Paris and in Sydney on the same day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	6 July	case
4	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 July	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 July	cop
6	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Paris	case
8	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 July	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Sydney	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Sydney	case
11	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Paris	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 day	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 day	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Sydney	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			Paris and Sydney on the same day		★ July	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: Which pair of sentences fits best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fits	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sentences	case
4	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pair	nmod
5	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 fits	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	which pair of sentences					well property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Paris: il neige. Sydney: il neige.

Sentence 1: Paris: il neige.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 neige	punct
3	il	il	X	_	4 neige	compound
4	neige	neige	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Paris	appos
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Paris	punct

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

Sentence 2: Sydney: il neige.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 neige	compound
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 il	punct
3	il	il	X	_	4 neige	compound
4	neige	neige	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 neige	punct

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

Option 2

Paris: c'est l'hiver. Sydney: c'est l'été.

Sentence 1: Paris: c'est l'hiver.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 l'hiver	punct
3	c'est	c'est	X	Foreign=Yes	4 l'hiver	compound
4	l'hiver	l'hiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Paris	appos
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Paris	punct

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

Sentence 2: Sydney: c'est l'été.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 l'été	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 l'été	punct
3	c'est	c'est	X	Foreign=Yes	4 l'été	compound
4	l'été	l'été	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 l'été	punct

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Paris: il fait chaud. Sydney: il fait froid.

Sentence 1: Paris: il fait chaud.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fait	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 il	punct
3	il	il	X	Foreign=Yes	4 fait	dep
4	fait	fait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	chaud	chaud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fait	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fait	infinitive	Paris	chaud					tree rules

Sentence 2: Sydney: il fait froid.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fait	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 il	punct
3	il	il	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Sydney	appos
4	fait	fait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	froid	froid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fait	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fait	punct

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

Option 4

Paris: il fait froid. Sydney: il fait chaud.

Sentence 1: Paris: il fait froid.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fait	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 il	punct
3	il	il	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Paris	flat:foreign
4	fait	fait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	froid	froid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fait	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fait	punct

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

Sentence 2: Sydney: il fait chaud.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fait	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 il	punct
3	il	il	X	Foreign=Yes	4 fait	dep
4	fait	fait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	chaud	chaud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fait	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fait	infinitive	Sydney	chaud					tree rules

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