Test 9 · ★ · Weather and seasons
Jayden asks, "Is vingt degrés, like, freezing?" What's the truth?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jayden, truth · What happens: ask, be, freeze · To what, where: vingt degrés · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Jayden asks, "Is vingt degrés, like, freezing?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jayden | Jayden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 degrés | punct |
| 5 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 degrés | cop |
| 6 | vingt | vingt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 degrés | amod |
| 7 | degrés | degré | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 asks | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 freezing | punct |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 11 freezing | mark |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 freezing | punct |
| 11 | freezing | freeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 asks | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 freezing | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 freezing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Jayden | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | vingt degrés | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | freeze in a quote | gerund | Jayden not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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: What's the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
No, 20 °C is warm, a T-shirt day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 warm | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 C | nummod |
| 4 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 5 C | compound |
| 5 | C | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 warm | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 warm | cop |
| 7 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 day | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 10 | T | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shirt | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 T | punct |
| 12 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 day | compound |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 warm | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | 20 ° C | warm property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, 20 degrees is freezing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 freezing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 degrees | nummod |
| 4 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 freezing | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 freezing | aux |
| 6 | freezing | freeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | present · progressive | 20 degrees | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
No, 20 °C is a heatwave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 20 | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 C | nummod |
| 4 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 5 C | compound |
| 5 | C | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heatwave | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 heatwave | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 heatwave | det |
| 8 | heatwave | heatwave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 20 ° C | a heatwave | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, it is 20 degrees below zero
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 degrees | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 degrees | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 degrees | cop |
| 5 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 degrees | nummod |
| 6 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | below | below | ADV | _ | 6 degrees | advmod |
| 8 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 degrees | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | 20 degrees | below property | tree rules |
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