Test 6 · My family
Arjun says "mon cousin" about Priya. What would happen in a French class?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Arjun · What happens: say, happen · To what, where: French class · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 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: Arjun says "mon cousin" about Priya.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arjun | Arjun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cousin | punct |
| 4 | mon | mon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cousin | compound |
| 5 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cousin | punct |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 Priya | case |
| 8 | Priya | Priya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cousin | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Arjun | vn 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: What would happen in a French class?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 class | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 class | det |
| 6 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 class | amod |
| 7 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happen | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | a French class | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in class=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The teacher would say: use mon cousine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
| 6 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 say | conj |
| 7 | mon | mon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cousine | compound |
| 8 | cousine | cousine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | the teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | use | infinitive | the teacher not said here | mon cousine | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousine=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The teacher would say: she's a girl, so ma cousine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 girl | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 girl | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 girl | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cousine | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 cousine | advmod |
| 12 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cousine | compound |
| 13 | cousine | cousine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 girl | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | the teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | teacher | a girl and ma cousine | tree rules |
Option 3
The teacher would say: use ma oncle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
| 6 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 say | conj |
| 7 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 oncle | compound |
| 8 | oncle | oncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | the teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | use | infinitive | the teacher not said here | ma oncle | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oncle=Patient |
Option 4
The teacher would say it's perfect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 perfect | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 perfect | cop |
| 7 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 say | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | the teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | teacher | perfect 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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