Test 12 · My family
★★★ Emma's mum's sister has one son and one daughter. What are they to Emma?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ sister, son · What happens: have, be · To what, where: one son, Emma
This is test 12 of lesson 14 «My family» 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: ★★★ Emma's mum's sister has one son and one daughter.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sister | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 4 | Emma | Emma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mum | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Emma | case |
| 6 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 mum | case |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 son | nummod |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 daughter | cc |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 daughter | nummod |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 son | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Emma's mum's ★ sister | one son and one daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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 are they to Emma?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Emma | case |
| 5 | Emma | Emma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | son | Emma | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
mon cousine et ma cousin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mon | mon | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 cousin | nsubj |
| 2 | cousine | cousine | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 mon | flat:foreign |
| 3 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 mon | flat:foreign |
| 4 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cousin | compound |
| 5 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
mon frère et ma sœur
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mon | mon | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 sœur | nsubj |
| 2 | frère | frère | X | _ | 1 mon | flat:foreign |
| 3 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 mon | flat:foreign |
| 4 | ma | ma | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 mon | flat:foreign |
| 5 | sœur | sœur | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
mon cousin et ma cousine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mon | mon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cousin | compound |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | et | et | CCONJ | _ | 5 cousine | cc |
| 4 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cousine | compound |
| 5 | cousine | cousine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cousin | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
mon oncle et ma tante
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mon | mon | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | oncle | oncle | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 mon | flat:foreign |
| 3 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 mon | flat:foreign |
| 4 | ma | ma | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 mon | flat:foreign |
| 5 | tante | tante | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 mon | flat:foreign |
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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