Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / questions / French / Weather and seasons / t2

Test 2 · ★ · Weather and seasons

Aisha says "Il est chaud" about the weather. Her teacher says, "Close, but..." What's the rule?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aisha, teacher, rule · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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: Aisha says "Il est chaud" about the weather.

nsubjpunctcompoundcompoundccomppunctcasedetnmodpunctrootAishaPROPNsaysVERB"PUNCTIlPROPNestPROPNchaudNOUN"PUNCTaboutADPtheDETweatherNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AishaAishaPROPNNumber=Sing2 saysnsubj
2sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3""PUNCT_6 chaudpunct
4IlIlPROPNNumber=Sing5 estcompound
5estESTPROPNNumber=Sing6 chaudcompound
6chaudchaudNOUNNumber=Sing2 saysccomp
7""PUNCT_6 chaudpunct
8aboutaboutADP_10 weathercase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 weatherdet
10weatherweatherNOUNNumber=Sing6 chaudnmod
11..PUNCT_2 sayspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresentAishavn 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: Her teacher says, "Close, but..."

nmod:possnsubjpunctpunctccomppunctconjpunctpunctrootHerPRONteacherNOUNsaysVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTCloseADJ,PUNCTbutCCONJ...PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HerherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 teachernmod:poss
2teacherteacherNOUNNumber=Sing3 saysnsubj
3sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4,,PUNCT_6 Closepunct
5""PUNCT_6 Closepunct
6ClosecloseADJDegree=Pos3 saysccomp
7,,PUNCT_8 butpunct
8butbutCCONJ_6 Closeconj
9......PUNCT_3 sayspunct
10""PUNCT_3 sayspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresentAisha's teachervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What's the rule?

copdetnsubjpunctrootWhatPRON'sAUXtheDETruleNOUN?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Introotroot
2'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin1 Whatcop
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 ruledet
4ruleruleNOUNNumber=Sing1 Whatnsubj
5??PUNCT_1 Whatpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentthe ruletree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Weather uses j'ai: j'ai chaud

nsubjobjpunctcompoundoblrootWeatherNOUNusesVERBj'aiX:PUNCTj'aiXchaudNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WeatherweatherNOUNNumber=Sing2 usesnsubj
2usesuseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3j'aij'aiXForeign=Yes2 usesobj
4::PUNCT_6 chaudpunct
5j'aij'aiX_6 chaudcompound
6chaudchaudNOUNNumber=Sing2 usesobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1usepresentWeatherj'aij'ai chaud oblvn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent j'ai=Patient

Option 2

Weather uses il y a: il y a chaud

nsubjnsubjccompflat:foreignpunctnsubjconjdetobjrootWeatherNOUNusesVERBilPROPNyVERBaDET:PUNCTilPROPNyVERBaDETchaudNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WeatherweatherNOUNNumber=Sing2 usesnsubj
2usesuseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3ilILPROPNNumber=Sing4 ynsubj
4yyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 usesccomp
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 yflat:foreign
6::PUNCT_8 ypunct
7ilILPROPNNumber=Sing8 ynsubj
8yyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 usesconj
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 chauddet
10chaudchaudNOUNNumber=Sing8 yobj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1usepresentWeathervn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2ypastiltree rules
3ypastila chaudtree rules

Option 3

Weather uses c'est: c'est chaud

nsubjobjpunctcompoundoblrootWeatherNOUNusesVERBc'estX:PUNCTc'estXchaudNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WeatherweatherNOUNNumber=Sing2 usesnsubj
2usesuseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3c'estc'estXForeign=Yes2 usesobj
4::PUNCT_6 chaudpunct
5c'estc'estXForeign=Yes6 chaudcompound
6chaudchaudNOUNNumber=Sing2 usesobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1usepresentWeatherc'estc'est chaud oblvn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c'est=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Weather uses il fait: il fait chaud

nsubjobjflat:foreignpunctdepadvclobjrootWeatherNOUNusesVERBilXfaitX:PUNCTilXfaitVERBchaudNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WeatherweatherNOUNNumber=Sing2 usesnsubj
2usesuseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3ililXForeign=Yes2 usesobj
4faitfaitXForeign=Yes3 ilflat:foreign
5::PUNCT_6 ilpunct
6ililXForeign=Yes7 faitdep
7faitfaitVERBVerbForm=Inf2 usesadvcl
8chaudchaudNOUNNumber=Sing7 faitobj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1usepresentWeatherilvn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent il=Patient
2faitinfinitiveWeather not said herechaudtree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/13-weather-and-seasons/t2/