Test 12 · Pets and animals
★★★ Grace makes a poster of animals in the plural. Which list has NO mistake?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, list · What happens: make, post, have · To what, where: poster, animals, mistake
This is test 12 of lesson 15 «Pets and animals» 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: ★★★ Grace makes a poster of animals in the plural.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | appos |
| 4 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 poster | det |
| 7 | poster | poster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 animals | case |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 poster | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 plural | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plural | det |
| 12 | plural | plural | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 animals | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | ★ | a poster of animals in the plural | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poster=Product | ||||
| 2 | post | animals in the plural | nom poster «communication transitive»: of=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: Which list has NO mistake?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 list | det |
| 2 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | NO | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 mistake | det |
| 5 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | which list | no mistake | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
des chevaux, des oiseaus, des souris
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chevaux | det |
| 2 | chevaux | chevaux | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 oiseaus | punct |
| 4 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 oiseaus | det |
| 5 | oiseaus | oiseau | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chevaux | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 des | punct |
| 7 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chevaux | conj |
| 8 | souris | souris | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chevaux | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
des chevaux, des oiseaux, des sourises
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chevaux | det |
| 2 | chevaux | chevaux | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 oiseaux | punct |
| 4 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 oiseaux | det |
| 5 | oiseaux | oiseaux | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chevaux | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sourises | punct |
| 7 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sourises | det |
| 8 | sourises | souris | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chevaux | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
des chevals, des oiseaux, des souris
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chevals | det |
| 2 | chevals | cheval | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 oiseaux | punct |
| 4 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 oiseaux | det |
| 5 | oiseaux | oiseaux | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chevals | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 des | punct |
| 7 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chevals | conj |
| 8 | souris | souris | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chevals | dep |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
des chevaux, des oiseaux, des souris
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chevaux | det |
| 2 | chevaux | chevaux | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 oiseaux | punct |
| 4 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 oiseaux | det |
| 5 | oiseaux | oiseaux | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chevaux | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 des | punct |
| 7 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chevaux | conj |
| 8 | souris | souris | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chevaux | 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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