Test 5 · My family
Charlotte says mamie "sounds dead cute." ("Dead" means very.) When would you use grand-mère instead?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Charlotte, mamie, you · What happens: say, sound, mean, use · To what, where: dead cute, grand mère · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 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: Charlotte says mamie "sounds dead cute."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charlotte | Charlotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mamie | mamie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sounds | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mamie | punct |
| 5 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cute | amod |
| 7 | cute | cute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sounds | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Charlotte | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sound in a quote | present | mamie | dead cute | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cute=Theme |
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: ("Dead" means very.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dead | punct |
| 3 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | csubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dead | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 means | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: When would you use grand-mère instead?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 use | mark |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 use | nsubj |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mère | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 grand | punct |
| 7 | mère | mère | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 use | obj |
| 8 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 4 use | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | would | you | grand mère | instead property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mère=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Never, grand-mère is a rude word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 word | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Never | punct |
| 3 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mère | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 grand | punct |
| 5 | mère | mère | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 word | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 word | det |
| 8 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 word | amod |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | grand mère | a rude word | tree rules |
Option 2
When talking to your gran at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 talking | advmod |
| 2 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 gran | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gran | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talking | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | gerund | home | to your gran | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to gran=Co-Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
On a school form or in a formal letter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 form | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 form | det |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 form | compound |
| 4 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 letter | cc |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 letter | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 letter | det |
| 8 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 letter | amod |
| 9 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 form | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
When your gran is very old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 old | mark |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 gran | nmod:poss |
| 3 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 old | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | your gran | old property | tree 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.
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