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Test 4 · ★ · Weather and seasons

Isla in Aberdeen says, "It's pure dreich." ("Dreich" means grey and gloomy.) What would a French person say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Isla, It, Dreich, French person · What happens: say, be, mean · To what, where: pure dreich, grey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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: Isla in Aberdeen says, "It's pure dreich."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Isla	Isla	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Aberdeen	case
3	Aberdeen	Aberdeen	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Isla	nmod
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dreich	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 dreich	punct
7	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dreich	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dreich	cop
9	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dreich	amod
10	dreich	dreich	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 dreich	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 dreich	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Isla in Aberdeen						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	It	pure dreich					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: ("Dreich" means grey and gloomy.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Dreich	punct
3	Dreich	Dreich	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Dreich	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gloomy	cc
8	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grey	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Dreich	grey					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grey=Topic

Sentence 3: What would a French person say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
4	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 person	amod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	a French person						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 fait gris.

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	gris	gris	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	gris					tree rules

Option 2

Il est nuage.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Il	Il	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	est	EST	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Il	flat
3	nuage	nuage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Il	appos
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Il	punct

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

Option 3

Il fait dreich.

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	dreich	dreich	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	dreich					tree rules

Option 4

Il pleut des chiens.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Il	Il	X	Foreign=Yes	4 chiens	nsubj
2	pleut	pleut	X	_	1 Il	flat:foreign
3	des	des	X	_	1 Il	flat:foreign
4	chiens	chien	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chiens	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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